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sarkari

sarkari adjective: governmental.

Adjective

sarkari (not comparable)

  1. (India, Pakistan) Governmental.
    • They argued that households which had received loans from other government programmes such as the Integrated Rural Development Programme, should not be entitled to ecodevelopment funds as their 'quota' for sarkari money was full.2007, Kuldip Singh Gulia, Ecology and Environment in the Himalayas, page 285
    • Instead of sticking to practices followed aeons ago of sarkari school education, he should have sent him to a good convent where it was mandatory to speak in English even during the lunch break.2012, Ashwini Bhatnagar, The High Bouncing Lover, page 24
  2. (India, slang) Supporting the government of India, pro-establishment; specifically, the BJP and Hindutva, against Indian Muslim interests.

Origin of sarkari

Borrowed from Urdu سَرْکاری (sarkārī) / Hindi सरकारी (sarkārī).

Words formed from sarkari

Phrases with sarkari

Questions about sarkari

What does sarkari mean?
Sarkari means governmental.
What part of speech is sarkari?
Sarkari is an adjective.

Words near sarkari in the dictionary

  1. Sariyah
  2. sarizotan
  3. sark
  4. sarkanda
  5. sarkar
  6. sarkari
  7. sarkari Muslim
  8. sarkari Muslims
  9. sarkars
  10. sarked
  11. Sarkee

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