collectorate

/ kəˈlɛktərɪt /

noun

1. the office of a collector in India

Example Sentences

Custom collectorate officials are corrupt.

From Reuters

The Hindu newspaper recently reported one instance in Tamil Nadu of the recurring conflict between farmers and industry across India: “At a meeting convened at the Collectorate here to redress their grievances, the farmers claimed the suction of water by motors as “unfair” and “unjust”.

From Forbes

On 12 October 2009 the mandatory public hearing for Tata's steel plant, meant to be held in Lohandiguda where local people could come, actually took place in a small hall inside the Collectorate in Jagdalpur, many miles away, cordoned off with massive security.

From The Guardian

American varieties have been introduced with much advantage in the Dharwar collectorate and other parts of the southern Mahratta country.

From Project Gutenberg

But foreseeing that, if the likin Collectorate were banished from the port-areas, opium would evade paying the likin tax, he proposed also to recommend that the likin, as well as the import duty, on opium should be collected by the foreign Inspectorate, and that for this purpose the opium should be bonded in a warehouse or receiving hulk till such time as the importer had paid the import due and the purchaser had paid the likin.

From Project Gutenberg