shroff
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Is shroff a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (India) A provider of financial services, especially a small-scale independent banker or money changer or (historical) a local expert at detecting bad coin.Examples: "The sheraffs are poore and begerly."; "Amongſt whom were Shroffs, or Money-changers."; "The breakfast soon dispatch'd, they're off, To borrow money from a shroff."India
2. (Hong Kong) A cashier, especially for a car park.Examples: "An assistant shroff of the Queen Mary Hospital faced Mr. J. Reynolds at Central yesterday charged with the larceny of $10."; "It is a source of endless fascination to newcomers to Hong Kong to observe types of employment in the city rarely seen in other parts of the world. Where, away from here, would you come across a shroff, for example?"Hong-Kong
3. (Hong Kong) The office of such a cashier at a car park etc.Hong-Kong
verb (English)
1. (India, transitive) To act as a shroff, especially (historical) to inspect coins to detect debasement, counterfeits, clipping, etc. for a commission.Examples: "I represented... that the money could not be divided till it was shroffed."; "The potential revenues of China are immense, but they are ‘shroffed’... by every hand through which they pass."Indiatransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary