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crore

crore

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A unit equal to ten million used in India
  • noun
  • Indian
: crore
  • If this is often taken as a trend, the revenue deficit this year might climb to Rs 6,838 crore.
  • 700 crore
  • Rs 700 crore

Examples

  • The project is estimated to cost around 5 crore rupees.

  • Adding to its woes is its high debt of close to Rs 8000 crore.

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  • If you won a 10 crore lottery, would you still work?

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  • Statistics show that as of today, 40.74 crore people in India lie.

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  • At least one Abul makes 16 crore.

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  • It is estimated that it is losing close to Rs 8 crore every day due to the suspension of operations.

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  • The next layer contains 25-30 crore people belonging to the middle classes, who are beginning to appreciate the benefits of liberalization.

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  • We have set up a Credit Risk Guarantee Fund Trust with a fund of ₹1,000 crore.

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  • Our target is to provide Rs 50,000-60,000 crore housing credits to the urban poor without any collateral.

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  • For example, if a builder is selling an apartment of 500 sq ft carpet at the rate of Rs 1 crore, the rate would be Rs 20,000 per sq ft.

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Surface Forms

crore singular
crores plural

Etymology

The word crore comes from the Hindi word karor and the Sanskrit koṭi, which meant 'ten million'. So a crore today is the Indian number for 'ten million', like the English word 'million'.