Vocabulary
Behest
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a person’s orders or command.
Urdu meaning
اشارہ، ایمائ، حکم
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The shoe is now on the other foot; the PTI is being battered by the PML-PPP coalition ostensibly at the behest of the powers that be.
- Moreover, New Delhi`s reaction borders on the conspiratorial, as the Indian external affairs ministry has characterised the court`s declaration as a `charade at Pakistan`s behest`.
- In fact, the threat of regional war has grown with signs that the US may get involved in attacking more Iranian nuclear facilities at Tel Aviv`s behest.
- But the main reason for noncompliance is the systematic annihilation of trade unions by the state at the behest of employers over the last four decades.
- In his diaries, Ayub wrote `the DPR has been destroyed by the Supreme Court on [the] behest of Cornelius`, and elsewhere would go on to call Cornelius a `fraud`.
Synonyms
instruction, bidding, request, requirement, wish, desire, command, order
Antonyms
appeal, entreaty, petition, plea, urging
Curator example
“they had assembled at his behest”
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