crore
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of crore
First recorded in 1600–10, crore is from the Hindi word kroṛ, karoṛ
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India bowler Shikha Pandey was the surprise recipient of the third-biggest contract of the auction, going for 2.4 crore Indian rupees to Warriorz.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025
Tata Group, which owns Air India, has said it would give one crore rupee - the equivalent of about £86,000 - to the families of each person who was killed in the crash.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2025
Microcredit: 5,000 crore, or 50 billion rupees will be allocated to “micro-small-medium enterprises” or MSMEs Agriculture: Credit up to 575,000 crore or 5.75 trillion rupees, an increase of 20 percent from the year before.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2012
A crore is 10 million rupees, or $188,000.
From Reuters ● Jan. 26, 2012
Akbar the furrier squats on the floor Sucking an Eastern pipe, Thumbing the lakhs that he's made of yore, Lakhs which creep to the long-dreamed crore In a ledger of Western type.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 by Various
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