Vocabulary
Detriment
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the state of being harmed or damaged.
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- This period also saw Saudi Arabia, along with other Gulf states, movecloser to India, to Pakistan`s detriment.
- However, it is a sobering reminder that piecemeal economic reforms risk destabilising the agriculture markets to the detriment of both growers and consumers.
- The GOI Act, 1935, split the major tax bases to the detriment of elected provincial governments, and Pakistan has staggered back to this colonial dispensation.
- But it would be to its own detriment if it does not shed its ideological fantasies and come to the table with Pakistan and the Kashmiris to achieve a solution acceptable to all.
- Until we recognise that knowledge is power and that it also requires power, the cycle will continue, to the detriment ofour students and society atlarge.m The wnter is a lecturer at Cadet College Mastung, Balochistan.
Synonyms
harm, damage, injury, hurt, impairment, loss, prejudice, disadvantage, disservice
Curator example
“he is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life”
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