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dustoor

dustoor is the alternative form of dastur.

dustoor is the alternative form of dasturi.

Meaning of dastur

Noun

dastur (plural dasturs)

  1. A Zoroastrian high priest ranking above a mobad or herbad.

Meaning of dasturi

Noun

dasturi (plural dasturis)

  1. (India) A commission or duty charged by an agent; a kickback.
    • In all dealings between natives there is invariably a species of extortion, a sort of dustoory, which is given in all money transactions.1832 February, Langford Kennedy, Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company, volume III,25

Forms of dustoor

pluraldustoors

Questions about dustoor

What is dustoor the alternative form of?
Dustoor is the alternative form of dastur.

Words near dustoor in the dictionary

  1. dustnado
  2. dustnadoes
  3. dustoff
  4. dustoffs
  5. Duston
  6. dustoor
  7. dustoore
  8. dustooree
  9. dustoorees
  10. dustoores
  11. dustoorie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dustoor (page history and authors); dastur (page history and authors); dasturi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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