cutcherry
Americannoun
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(in India) a public administrative or judicial office.
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any administrative office.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cutcherry
1600–10; < Hindi kacērī, variant of kacahrī audience house, courthouse, office
Example Sentences
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Plenty of witnesses were forthcoming to give evidence against them; such can be purchased outside any cutcherry in India for a few rupees.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert
There is always some noise about a putwarrie's cutcherry.
From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by Inglis, James
The cutcherry clerks and the police are with him everywhere; higher native officials are often on his side.
From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert
During the day the cutcherry or office is crowded with the more respectable villagers, paying in rents and settling accounts.
From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by Inglis, James
I first met him driving home from cutcherry in his buggy.
From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert
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