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.
- Or would it produce an effect that was only nebulously hinted at by the term contra-attunement?
- Most interestingly, however, they ALL have a deep and abiding believe in contra-causal free will.
- The gondoliers, chanting for a fare as they stood at the foot of the bridge in contra posto poses.
- I grew up with folk music and dance, connected with the Nelson contra dancers and the Morris dancing community.
- You say ‘my account’ of iran contra is ridiculous, and yet ‘my account’ was a congressional inquiry, and federal court testimonies.
- The "Big Lake" is so called in contra‑distinction to the Little Lake, which lies due East from it fifty miles, and which has been described in a former chapter.
- (There might have been a subsequent remark about the CIA guy's wife involving the word contra, but Billy claims that was another button man imitating him over a walkie-talkie).
- HERE IS THE LAST PARAGRAPH: The lesson of Iran/contra is that if our system of government is to function properly, the branches of government must deal with one another honestly and cooperatively.
- For it may happen that health and disease, science and ignorance, and, in short, contra - ries, may be present with every individual of the same thing; but it is impossible that they should be present with each other.
- Both were of interest in their own way: one appeared to be primarily based on concern about the impact of any publication on the celebrity's children, and in the other OPQ, in a private hearing and notwithstanding that no one was there to present any counter-argument, Mr Justice Eady decided that he had an "inherent jurisdiction" to grant what is known as a "contra mundem" order - ie an order against the whole world, banning anyone from publishing material "wherever it is necessary and proportionate" to use it to protect an individual's rights.
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