A financial arrangement or agreement, often used in Indian English to describe a contract or business deal.
From Gujarati 'kankani' or Hindi, related to commercial and trading terminology used in Indian commerce and English-speaking communities in South Asia.
This word is a wonderful example of how English absorbed vocabulary from Indian languages during colonial trade—it shows up in Indian English business contexts but is virtually unknown in American or British English!
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