Shroff
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ʃɹɒf/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Shroff is a noun meaning (Hong Kong) A cashier, especially for a car park.
Meaning
(Hong Kong) A cashier, especially for a car park.
More Meanings
- (Hong Kong) The office of such a cashier at a car park etc.
- (India) A provider of financial services, especially a small-scale independent banker or money changer or (historical) a local expert at detecting bad coin.
- (India, transitive) To act as a shroff, especially (historical) to inspect coins to detect debasement, counterfeits, clipping, etc. for a commission.
Example Sentences
The sheraffs are poore and begerly.
Amongſt whom were Shroffs, or Money-changers.
Racing leads to the shroff quicker than anything else.
The breakfast soon dispatch'd, they're off, To borrow money from a shroff.
Word Forms
- shroffs
- shraff
- shrofe
- shraf
- shroffing
- shroffed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include schroff, podder, soucar, shunter, shover, schofel.
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