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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

recaudador de impuestos

Pronunciation / Transliteration: re-kau-da-ðor de im-pwes-tos

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Tahsildar/təˈsɪl.dɑːr/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El recaudador de impuestos verificó los registros de la propiedad."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A tax collection and land revenue officer in charge of a tehsil or taluk in parts of South Asia, particularly India.

    "The tahsildar inspected the agricultural land records to resolve the boundary dispute."
  2. 2

    An administrative executive magistrate responsible for supervising local revenue administration and issuing official certificates.

    "Citizens must submit their income verification documents to the local tahsildar."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Arabic word 'taḥsīl' (meaning collection or revenue), combined with the Persian suffix '-dar' (meaning holder or keeper). Historically adopted during the Mughal era in South Asia, it evolved into an administrative title for a revenue officer in charge of a taluk or tehsil under British colonial administration and post-independence governance.

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