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usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing

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One senior PTI wallah railed about NAB's case against Nawaz Sharif, asking why a prosecutor for the bureau in the trial court would tell the judge to google the value of the Avenfield apartments when asked their worth.
They do not put on airs in public, unlike some of the NGO wallahs who hanker after funds and fear any transparent auditing befitting organisations supposedly devoted to public service.
The sabzi wallah or green grocer would enter its streets at about ten o' clock and announce his arrival with a nasal operatic flourish.
Bun Wallah: A soldier who drinks nothing stronger than tea, and is in consequence supposed to eat voraciously of buns.
The fury is compounded because the diesel car wallahs are still paying ` 33 less for the same litre of fuel.
Their inability order the right kit at the right time is wallahs of huge proportions.
Instead of fobbing off teachers with this meaningless drivel, the health and safety wallahs should come clean and start a clean-up of our schools.
I stopped to admire chandi warak wallahs (silver beaters) pounding rhythmically on leather pouches to create silver foils; the bone-setters treating people with fractured limbs and the lassi-wallahs pouring out sweetened laban with a dash of khoya (solidified milk) and ice-cream.
Mr Davies mentions 700 staff, do the council have that many office wallahs to run a council for a town the size of Caerphilly?
AbsolutePoker claims it was an inside job, perpetrated by one of its own IT wallahs, and that it remains impossible to create an all-seeing 'super-user' account to hack the system from afar.
And if those fixture wallahs at the SPL couldn't be bothered to walk down the same corridor of the same floor of the same building to consult with the SFL it's unlikely they're going to work hand in glove with the SRU.
Most of the very best of the "computer wallahs" work in the US, where pay and opportunities are far better than India or anywhere else can offer.
The band wallahs were keen on a judicial intervention to roll back Parliament's assent to The Man of Steel remaining head of his party.
We have had good old boys, the cider wallahs, and had many laughs.