Noun:

शराबख़ाने का मालिक, टैक्स या कर वसूल करनेवाला,

publican's Usage Examples:

As if this action had some mysterious and menacing significance, the workmen surrounding the publican paused in indecision.

"I daresay you would like to bind me!" shouted the publican, pushing away the men advancing on him, and snatching his cap from his head he flung it on the ground.

The tall lad, standing in the porch, turned his bleared eyes from the publican to the smith and back again as if considering whom he ought to fight now.

These men, who under the leadership of the tall lad were drinking in the dramshop that morning, had brought the publican some skins from the factory and for this had had drink served them.

The publican, taking advantage of the increased crowd, dropped behind and returned to his tavern.

Another smith tried to enter the doorway, pressing against the publican with his chest.

The publican was fighting one of the smiths at the door, and when the workmen came out the smith, wrenching himself free from the tavern keeper, fell face downward on the pavement.

The offender is only treated as a heathen and publican when the purity and safety of the church demand it.

Robbery is not permitted to anybody now a days! shouted the publican, picking up his cap.

Zacchaeus the publican and the grateful Samaritan leper further illustrate this characteristic. Writing as he does for Gentile believers he omits many details which from their strongly Jewish cast might be unintelligible or uninteresting.

Synonyms:

barkeep, barkeeper, tapster, tavern keeper, mixologist, barman, tapper, bartender,

Antonyms:

nonworker, employer,