Vocabulary
Austerity
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
Sternness; severity of manner
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Two, it points to a widening gap between tax and other resources and growing expenditures as reflected in the fiscal deficit despite austerity measures.
- These improvements achieved mainly through IMF-prescribed austerity policies have prompted global rating agencies to lif t Pakistan`s sovereign rating, hinting at a restoration of market confidence in its economy.
- While everyone else gets austerity and low growth, officers of the state civil and military face few such constraints.
- In this time of austerity, such expenses are best not incurred.
- But because the current IMF programme is the harshest in Pakistan`s history, demanding a level of fiscal austerity that has exacted an unprecedented toll of economic devastation, misery and impoverishment.
Synonyms
coldness, gravity
Antonyms
luxuriousness, elaborateness
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