cutcherry

or cut·cher·y

[ kuh-cher-ee, kuhch-uh-ree ]

noun,plural cut·cher·ries.

(in India) a public administrative or judicial office.
any administrative office.

Origin of cutcherry

1600–10; <Hindi kacērī, variant of kacahrī audience house, courthouse, office

Words Nearby cutcherry

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How to use cutcherry in a sentence

During the day the cutcherry or office is crowded with the more respectable villagers, paying in rents and settling accounts.
Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier | James Inglis
cutcherry, kuch′ėr-i, n. an office for public business, a court-house.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) | Various

British Dictionary definitions for cutcherry

cutcherry

cutchery

/ (ˈkʌtʃərɪ) /

nounplural -cherries or -cheries

(formerly, in India) government offices and law courts collectively

Origin of cutcherry

C17: from Hindi Kachachrī

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