contra
IPA: kˈɑntrʌ
noun
- (business) A deal to swap goods or services.
- (politics, derogatory) A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
- (accounting, often attributive) An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).
- (music, informal) Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
- (dance) A contra dance.
- (obsolete, US, New England, dance) A country dance.
- A member of any of various rightist guerrilla groups violently opposing the socialist Sandinista government of Nicaragua and secretly funded by the United States government in the 1980s.
verb
- (accounting) To undo; to reverse.
adverb
- contrary to something
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Examples of "contra" in Sentences
- It is just plain contra factual.
- It is not a contra bass clarinet.
- Screenshot of Contra for the arcade.
- This is not really contra tradition.
- Contra Costa's creation and division.
- Then improve the article on the Contras.
- The article on the Contras makes this clear.
- She then turned to the opposition the Contras.
- This is a biography, not an apologia or a contra.
- I grew up with folk music and dance, connected with the Nelson contra dancers and the Morris dancing community.