Definitions for pacht
pacht

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1. Pacht

   The institution of the pacht or pacht-stelsel (revenue farm, pl. pachten) was a system of tax farming in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and Dutch Cape Colony (now South Africa), whereby the colonial state sub-contracted the sovereign right of tax collection to private revenue farmers or pachters. In the Indies, it formed one of the main sources of state revenue prior to the twentieth century.The pachters could extract profits on top of what was due to the authorities, and were allowed to enforce their rights with private armies and intelligence agencies. The pachters usually employed administrators, the kuasa pacht, to run the day-to-day operations of their pachten. A pacht territory could be managed as a discrete unit or divided further into smaller farms, sub-contracted to sub-farmers.The Dutch colonial authorities granted or auctioned off pachten for the sale of opium and salt, for the running of toll houses, pawnshops and gambling dens, for the collection of land, market and poll taxes, for the management of forests, and for the gathering of produce such as birds' nests, pearls, trepang and sponges. As the colonial state became more centralised, most of these revenue farms were gradually taken over by the government or state monopolies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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1. PACHT

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pacht is ranked #126018 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Pacht surname appeared 136 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Pacht.
   
   90.4% or 123 total occurrences were White.
   4.4% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Anagrams for pacht »

1. patch

2. chapt

How to pronounce pacht?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say pacht in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pacht in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pacht in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacht
2. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html