hafta

• “The municipal officer demands a bribe from a hawker; the bureaucrat refuses to register a land title or a marriage; the traffic cop beats the rickshaw-driver who can't afford to pay his weekly installment, known as hafta.”

  The Wall Street Journal: India's Middle Class Hungers for Undemocratic Change

• “But I always say, then you "hafta" make sure that these free trade agreements are being abided by both parties, and that's not what's happened.”

  CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2008

• “Having done her bit, the policewoman pocketed the 'hafta”

  WN.com - Articles related to India eyeing Africa, Latin America for exports: Scindia

• “Having done her bit, the policewoman pocketed the 'hafta' (bribe) from the 'gharwali”

  WN.com - Articles related to India eyeing Africa, Latin America for exports: Scindia

• “They then stop unsuspecting motorcycle riders and demand 'hafta' from them,”

  WN.com - Articles related to 36 Hours in Goa, India

• “I suspect Pavin will make Woods a "hafta" pick and hope it works out the way it did in 2007 when Mike Weir was named to play in the Presidents Cup at Royal Montreal despite a pre-event record that hardly suggested he would become, arguably, the best player at that event.”

  Winnipeg Sun

• “A cynical analysis for the reason of this apathy would be that the police had not received its 'hafta' and hence refused to take any pre-emptive measure.”

  Asian Tribune

• “It is a fairly well-known story in Bangalore that some Kannada activists collect a 'hafta' from shopkeepers and set up protests in front of software companies to simply make money and more money.”

  Communalism Watch

• “To know you've caught gobs of fish, you hafta lose count.”

  what is the most fish you have caught in one day?

• “We hafta repeat what he tells us to or we get in trouble!”

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