Vocabulary
Cahoots
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
colluding or conspiring together secretly
Urdu meaning
شرکت، ملی بھگت،سازش میں ملوث
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- While a few big players in cahoots with officials may have remained active in smuggling, many of the smaller players for whom this was a means of supporting daily expenses, lost their jobs.
- Surprisingly, once again, the ruling political elites, in cahoots with the powerful security establishment, are dismantling the federal and democratic structures.
- He also spoke extensively on a conspiracy allegedly hatched against him some 10 years ago by a military general in cahoots with his main rivals.
- Moreover, declaring war on the drug mafia often in cahoots with the police and political sanction in Karachi, Hyderabad, Thatta and Sujawal is overdue.
Synonyms
in league, colluding, in collusion, conspiring, conniving
Antonyms
divided, separate, uncoordinated, separated
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