| 单词 | shroff office |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshroff office Hong Kong English. Also more fully shroff office: a cashier's office or payment booth, esp. at a car park. ΚΠ 1970 South China Morning Post 11 Feb. 6/5 The shroff office at the North Kowloon Court was crowded throughout the day as people queued up to pay fines for various minor offences during the Lunar New Year holiday. 1995 South China Sunday Morning Post (Hong Kong) 24 Dec. (Sunday Mag.) 8/1 See you by the shroff in five minutes. We're going out. 1996 Jrnl. Managem. in Med. (Electronic ed.) 10 A patient first queues for the shroff (cashier's office) where a fee is paid. 2005 M. Backman Inside Knowl. xxi. 225 Offices in Hong Kong that handle small payments such as parking fees in high-rise car parks are called ‘shroff offices’ or simply ‘shroffs’. 2007 S. Fallon Hong Kong (Lonely Planet) 96 The gun..is accessible..through a door marked ‘Car Park Shroff, Marina Club & Noon Gun’. < as lemmas |
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