Today’s “Word of the Day” is “hankering“ and it is a noun and its meaning is “strong desire/wish, longing, craving, yearning, appetite (to have something or to do something)”.
Example Sentence: The Indian farmer is not hankering for charity. The farmer wants to leverage land, labour and capital like any other entrepreneur but alas cannot. The farmer is promised credit but denied access to it. The rhetoric of free power supply translates into unreliability. Pricing is subject to populist whims. Access to markets is controlled by politically blessed cartels.
This word is present in The The New Indian Express article Anti-farmer policies of pro farmer politics and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The New Indian Express
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