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Meaning of shroff | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ʃɹɒf

Definitions

  1. A provider of financial services, especially a small-scale independent banker or money changer or (historical) a local expert at detecting bad coin.
  2. A surname of Indian usage.
  3. A cashier, especially for a car park.
  4. The office of such a cashier at a car park etc.

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.”
“Racing leads to the shroff quicker than anything else.”
“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?”
“Dunn’s attorney, Sabrina Shroff, during closing arguments on Wednesday said that the confrontation was the result of his “strongly held feelings” about immigration enforcement, NBC News reported.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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