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

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