Contra
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Contra is a Latin preposition meaning "against". It is very frequently abbreviated to con, which is a separate preposition. It may refer to:
- Contras, Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries opposed to the Sandinistas
- Iran–Contra affair, the Reagan administration selling weapons to Iran to fund the Contras
- Contra (citation signal), a term used in legal citations
- Contra payment (financial accounting), made in cases where a customer is also a supplier and a payment owed is offset against a payment due
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[edit] Media
- Contra (Swedish magazine), an anti-socialist magazine in Sweden
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- Contra dance, several folk dance styles in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length
- Contra (album), the second album by Vampire Weekend
- Contrabassoon, or double bassoon, a larger version of the bassoon sounding an octave lower
- Contra-alto and Contrabass clarinets
- Contrabass and Subcontrabass saxophones
- Contrabass bugle, the lowest-pitched instrument in the drum and bugle corps hornline
[edit] Video games
- Contra (series), a line of run and gun video games created by Konami
- Contra (video game), the original game, released in 1987
- Contra, a Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour modification
[edit] People
- Cosmin Contra (born 1975), Romanian football player
[edit] Places
- Tenero-Contra, a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland
- Contra, Virginia
- Contra Costa Canal
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