shroff

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.
   India
2. A surname of Indian usage.
3. A cashier, especially for a car park.
   Hong-Kong
4. The office of such a cashier at a car park etc.
   Hong-Kong

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.”

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