| 释义 |
hundi India.|ˈhʊndɪ|
Also hoondee, hoondi, hoondy.
[Hind. hundī (Skr. huṇḍikā bill of exchange).]
A negotiable instrument, such as a bill of exchange or promissory note, used by native bankers in India and worded in the vernacular; also, money remitted by such an instrument.
1619in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 85 [They advise the dispatch of bills of exchange for rupees] hundies [17,100]. 1620Ibid. 182 The exchange of rup[ees] secaus for hundies. 1810T. Williamson East India Vade Mecum II. 330 Hoondies (i.e. bankers' drafts) would be of no use whatever to them. 1913J. M. Keynes Indian Currency & Finance vi. 197 The hoondees they buy and sell to each other..are chiefly the traders' hoondees bearing the shroffs' own endorsements. 1930Economist 12 Apr. 820/1 Bills (hundis) of the native type. 1963Times 18 May 8/4 It is thought that gold smuggling gangs obtain funds by operating the ‘Hundi’ system among Pakistani immigrants in Britain. 1969Commerce (Bombay) 26 July 150/2 Apprehensions..may push up the rate of interest in the free market from 15–18 per cent to 20–24 per cent against the hundies, promissory notes and short loans. |