tehsildar

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Urdu, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian تحسیل (“collection”).

Noun

tehsildar (plural tehsildars)

  1. An administrative officer in Pakistan and India who gathers taxes from a tehsil.
    • 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin 2014, p. 59:
      The next day Victor took an architect with him and got the tehsildar to join them.

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