Vocabulary
Reckon
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
establish by calculation.
Urdu meaning
گننا، اندازہ لگانا، شمار کرنا، حساب کرنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- With major donors like the UK, France, and Germany announcing aid cuts, Pakistan must reckon with a harsh new reality.
- How do we reckon between the two scenarios of `tremendous growth` and tremendous inconveniences?
- If it does not reckon with the stone in its shoe, this government will find it very difficult to walk the path of adjustment that will be laid out for it in the successor Fund programme.
- The year 2024 is when a new window of opportunity will open to reckon with all the ailments that brought us to this pass.
- So any incoming government in 2024 will have to reckon with enduring economic problems such as these.
Synonyms
calculate, compute, work out, put a figure on, figure, number, quantify; count (up)
Antonyms
abandon, calibrate, measure, scale
Curator example
“his debts were reckoned at Rs300,000”
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