shroff

American  

[shrof] / ʃrɒf /

noun

1. (in India) a banker or money-changer.

2. (in East Asia, especially China) a local expert employed to test the purity of a coin’s metal content, especially silver or gold.

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verb (used with object)

1. to test (coins) to ascertain the purity of the metal content, especially silver or gold.

shroff British  

/ ʃrɒf /

noun

1. (in China, Japan, etc, esp formerly) an expert employed to separate counterfeit money or base coin from the genuine

2. (in India) a moneychanger or banker

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verb

1. (tr) to test (money) and separate out the counterfeit and base

Etymology

Origin of shroff

First recorded in 1610–20; earlier sharoffe from Portuguese xarrafo, probably from Gujarati śaraf, from Arabic ṣayrāfī “moneychanger”

Example Sentences

Saurav Shroff, co-founder and chief executive of Hawthorne, Calif.-based Starpath, which is developing technology to establish a self-sustaining city on Mars, was on a plane on Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal

Shroff was taking a day trip to drop off product samples with a customer, he said via text from up in the air.

From The Wall Street Journal

“All work. Our job is done when life is multiplanetary,” Shroff said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Shroff said some of his staff are taking time off for the holidays.

From The Wall Street Journal

As film distributor Shyam Shroff told Chopra: "As they used to say about the British Empire, the sun never sets on Sholay."

From BBC