crori

English

Noun

crori (plural croris)

(India, obsolete) The possessor or collector of a crore, or ten million, of any given kind of money; especially an official collector of revenue to the extent of a crore of dāms, or 250,000 rupees, who was also at various times invested with the general superintendence of the lands in his district, and the charge of the police.

References

Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “crori”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

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