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单词 cutcherry
释义

cutcherry

or cut·cher·y

[ kuh-cher-ee, kuhch-uh-ree ]
/ kəˈtʃɛr i, ˈkʌtʃ ə ri /

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

cutbank, cut both ways, cut capers, cut-card work, cutch, cutcherry, cut class, cut corners, cut dead, cutdown, cut drop
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Example sentences from the Web for cutcherry

  • 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) /

noun plural -cherries or -cheries

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

Word Origin for cutcherry

C17: from Hindi Kachachrī
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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