Vocabulary
Prerequisite
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a thing that is required as a prior condition for something else to happen or exist.
Urdu meaning
لازمی، اولین شرط،ضروری
Example sentences (from Dawn)
Sentences are selected from stored editorial text where your search word appears. If none appear yet, run the admin sentence generator for fuller coverage.
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After all, the delimitation of constituencies, though a legal prerequisite for conducting polls, does not guarantee elections.
Dawn Editorials —
Delaying LG polls
— 2026-04-20
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This is a prerequisite for lasting world peace.
Dawn Editorials —
Autism and war
— 2026-04-02
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Abolishing this prerequisite will not strengthen minority representation.
Dawn Editorials —
Faith of voters
— 2026-02-24
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It is an imperative, a prerequisite to gain power and the beneficial consequence of exercising it.According to Transparency International, Pakistan can be found on its scale of corruption somewhere between Ukraine and Afghanistan.
Dawn Editorials —
Man-made virus
— 2025-12-04
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FAIRNESS is a prerequisite for any legitimate election.
Dawn Editorials —
Fallacious fairness
— 2025-10-08
Synonyms
necessary condition, condition, precondition,qualification, essential, requirement
Antonyms
unnecessary, non-essential
Curator example
“sponsorship is not a prerequisite for any project”
More vocabulary to explore
About this vocabulary section.
These entries support close reading of Dawn editorials and opinion pieces: short definitions,
Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
so you can see tone and usage.
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- Where do the example sentences come from?
- When available, example sentences are drawn from cached matches in our Dawn editorial corpus so you can see how a word is used in real newsroom-style prose.
- How is this different from a dictionary?
- This section is curated for students preparing for competitive exams and editorial reading. Entries are compact, often include Urdu glosses, and are paired with in-context lines from editorials when we have them.
