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Definition of thekedar in English: thekedar(also thikadar) nounˈtɛkɛdɑːr Indian A person who undertakes to provide labour or materials to do a job; a contractor. 〈印度〉（提供劳动力或物资的）工程承办人；承包商 Example sentencesExamples - He told the thekedars that they were committing a crime by appointing child laborers.
- The leaders or thekedars usually do very little physical work, as they are busy in managing the other activities associated with job contracting.
- Increasingly, landlords are resorting to using migrant contract labour, which is organised by jamedars and thekedars (agents and contractors).
- I asked them to sit quietly, already the thikadar in charge.
- ‘There are twelve of us with the thekedar,’ he tells me.
- Similarly nine-year-old Manju showed deep scars on her hands and legs and said that she was beaten by the thekedar (building contractor) for being slow in breaking heavy stones.
- This hands-off approach has made them victims of the thekedars.
- It has an area of 14 square miles, of which three quarters is forest, and contains seven villages, three of these being held by thekedars, while two are uninhabited.
- Similar arrangements with thikadars were common in India.
- I don't have a son who is a thekedar; no one in my family is a thekedar.
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