Today’s “Word of the Day” is militate against and it is a phrasal verb meaning “work against, go against, be detrimental to, to conflict with, counteract, prevent, resist, hinder, oppose”.
Example Sentence: One of the committee’s recommendations is that if a State Assembly gets dissolved before five years of its term, after the “appointed date” — the date for synchronising Lok Sabha and Assembly elections — fresh “midterm” elections will be held but the new Assembly’s will not have a full five-year tenure. Its tenure will end five years from the “appointed date”. This provision militates against the original idea of cost cutting through simultaneous elections. It is also an anti-federal idea.
This word is present in Wrong notion: On simultaneous elections and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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