Meaning & use
Lakhs
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Units of one hundred thousand, used especially in South Asian counting systems to express large numbers, particularly of money.
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The startup raised twenty lakhs of rupees in its first funding round.
House prices in the city now run into several lakhs.
A note on using this word
'Lakh' comes from Sanskrit 'lakṣa' and is standard in Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Nepali English, where numbers are grouped as lakhs and crores rather than thousands and millions.
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hundred thousands
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