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dustoorie

dustoorie is the alternative form of dasturi.

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 dustoorie

pluraldustoories

Questions about dustoorie

What is dustoorie the alternative form of?
Dustoorie is the alternative form of dasturi.

Words near dustoorie in the dictionary

  1. dustoor
  2. dustoore
  3. dustooree
  4. dustoorees
  5. dustoores
  6. dustoorie
  7. dustoories
  8. dustoors
  9. dustoory
  10. dustore
  11. dustores

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dustoorie (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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