nounplural noun crore, plural noun crores

• Ten million; one hundred lakhs, especially of rupees, units of measurement, or people.

  ‘All the other channels will be launching programmes giving away crores upon crores of rupees.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Trust reigned supreme even in verbal deals worth hundreds of crores of rupees.’
  • ‘Some of the screen printing units have received orders worth crores of rupees.’
  • ‘It is not difficult to raise a few crores of rupees in one year.’
  • ‘It is now common knowledge that thousands of crores worth of sandalwood is being plundered from our forests every year.’