ฉ้อราษฎร์บังหลวง
Thai
pron
Definitions
- (historical) crime of collecting money, as taxes, fees, etc, from private citizens and failing to forward the money to the government; crime of appropriating public money.
- corruption in public sector; corruption in public office.
Etymology
Compound from Thai ฉ้อ (cheat) + Thai ราษฎร์ (private citizen, inhabitant, citizen)+ Thai บัง (hide, conceal, etc, cover)+ Thai หลวง (great, royal, principal, chief, etc, public, government, big, grand, public sector, governmental).
Origin
Thai
หลวง
Gloss
great, royal, principal, chief, etc, public, government, big, grand, public sector, governmental
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing