crori

English

Noun

crori (plural croris)

1. (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, […].

Anagrams

• cirro-, roric