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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024shroff (shrof ),USA pronunciation n. - British Empire(in India) a banker or money-changer.
- British Empire(in the Far East, esp. China) a native expert employed to test coins and separate the base from the genuine.
v.t. - British Empireto test (coins) in order to separate the base from the genuine.
- Arabic ṣayrāfī moneychanger
- Gujarati śaraf
- Portuguese xarrafo, probably
- earlier sharoffe 1610–20
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