crore

English

English numbers ^(edit)

[a], [b] ←  10,000	←  1,000,000 (106)	10,000,000 (107)	100,000,000 (108)  →	1,000,000,000 (109)  → [a], [b], [c]
Cardinal: ten million, crore     Ordinal: ten-millionth

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani करोड़ / کروڑ (karoṛ).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɹoɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɹɔː/

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• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /kɹo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /kɹoə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophone: craw (non-rhotic)

Noun

crore (plural crore or crores)

1. (India, Pakistan) ten million (10⁷): 10,000,000, that is, with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,000.

   Meronym: lakh

   The population of Gujarat is 3.39 crores.

   The state estimates that the construction project will cost about two crores.

   • 2003 July 2, Araving Gowda, “Karnataka to do away with revenue stamps”, in India Times‎^[1]:

     Following the ban, the government stands to lose ₹30 crore annually, sources said.

   • 2025 September 6, M. Soundariya Preetha, “Trump tariff effect: Tamil Nadu's apparel hubs are unravelling at the seams. From August 27, the United States has levied a 50% tariff on Indian goods exported to them, disrupting business for thousands of micro, small and medium-scale enterprises in India in sectors such as textiles, garments, and jewellery”, in The Hindu‎^[2]:

     According to K.M. Subramanian, president of the Tiruppur Exporters Association, Tiruppur ships garments worth ₹12,000-15,000 crore to the U.S. each year, which makes up 32–35% of its total exports. […] Subramanian, who has seven factories in Tiruppur district, explains how the situation changed for the worse over the last few months. […] When the U.S. imposed 25% tariffs, buyers discussed sharing the costs of orders already placed with exporters, since competing countries faced similar duties. But with tariffs now at 50%, most buyers no longer want the goods […] “We fear that Tiruppur may lose ₹3,000 crore-5,000 crore worth of annual business that involves core products as buyers can easily source them from other countries,” says Subramanian. Displaying some of the garments for children that he has made for a brand based in the U.S., he says he also has stocks worth nearly ₹18 crore that were made for the US buyers.

   • 2025 September 8, Sanjay Vijayakumar, “Tamil Nadu second biggest market for small business credit: study”, in The Hindu‎^[3]:

     Tamil Nadu is the second biggest market for small business credit, accounting for 9.3% of the national total, as per a joint report by Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and credit bureau CRIF High Mark. As of June 30, 2025, Tamil Nadu had an outstanding small business credit portfolio of about ₹4.21 lakh crore, up 15.7% from ₹3.64 lakh crore as of June 30 2024, the report said. Maharashtra remained the largest market with ₹6.0 lakh crore in outstanding credit, while Tamil Nadu, Gujarat (₹3.69 lakh crore), Uttar Pradesh (₹3.61 lakh crore), and Karnataka (₹3.18 lakh crore) round out the top five by portfolio size. Uttar Pradesh registered highest outstanding portfolio growth of 20.7% on a year-on-year basis. The report defines "Small Business" as those businesses that have an aggregated credit exposure not exceeding ₹5 crore from the formal lending system.

Usage notes

There seems to be no standard way of abbreviating crore. The Indian press uses Cr, cr, Cr. and cr. interchangeably, but it is predominantly spelt unabbreviated.

Derived terms

• multicrore

Related terms

• kror, krore

Translations

ten million — see ten million

See also

• ₹, rupees

References

• “crore”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• corer

Champenois

Etymology

Inherited from Old French croire, from Latin crēdere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kror/

Noun

crore

1. (Troyen) to believe

References

• Daunay, Jean (1998), Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[4] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885), Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[5] (in French), Troyes