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sheraff

sheraff is the alternative form of shroff.

Meaning of shroff

Noun

shroff (plural shroffs)

  1. (India) A provider of financial services, especially a small-scale independent banker or money changer or (historical) a local expert at detecting bad coin.
    • The sheraffs are poore and begerly.1618, cited in William Foster, The English Factories in India..., page 8
  2. (Hong-Kong) A cashier, especially for a car park.
    • An assistant shroff of the Queen Mary Hospital faced Mr. J. Reynolds at Central yesterday charged with the larceny of $10.1950 November 3, South China Morning Post, page 7
  3. (Hong-Kong) The office of such a cashier at a car park etc.

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Forms of sheraff

pluralsheraffs

Questions about sheraff

What is sheraff the alternative form of?
Sheraff is the alternative form of shroff.

Words near sheraff in the dictionary

  1. sheqel
  2. sheqels
  3. Sheqi
  4. Shequala
  5. Sher
  6. sheraff
  7. sheraffs
  8. Sherard
  9. Sherardian
  10. sherardisation
  11. sherardise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sheraff (page history and authors); shroff (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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