Vocabulary
Afloat
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
floating in water; not sinking.
Urdu meaning
پانی میں تیرتا ہوا، پوری شدت کے ساتھ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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Out of Rs12.97tr collected in taxes, about Rs2.1tr nearly one in every six rupees was redirected towards SOEs to keep them afloat.
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Heavy cost of SOEs
— 2026-02-16
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Without fundamental restructuring, disciplined capital allocation and a shift from merely keeping entities afloat to making them efficient, SOEs cannot function as sustainable businesses.
Dawn Editorials —
Heavy cost of SOEs
— 2026-02-16
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The high-wire act performed to keep banks afloat in 2008 or to keep the energy supply chain running in 1998 is known only to those who actually performed these deeds.
Dawn Editorials —
Fighting fires
— 2026-01-22
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In other words, the economy will end up encouraging losers, leading to the diversion of resources from advantageous and productive uses in order to keep afloat those destined for extinction.
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Industrial policy a relic
— 2025-09-12
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If we want to keep our economy afloat and our exports competitive, we must start treating industrial energy security as a national priority.
Dawn Editorials —
Power shift
— 2025-09-05
Synonyms
buoyant, floating, buoyed up, non-submerged, suspended, drifting, on/above the surface
Curator example
“they trod water to keep afloat”
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