countercharge
Americannoun
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a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser
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military a retaliatory charge
verb
Etymology
Origin of countercharge
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As he helped Alcocer with the countercharge, he said he voiced concerns about the amount of material being loaded into the containment vessel, according to his and Levesque’s interviews with investigators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
The 150-year-old, recently digitized map depicts the Battle of Antietam — not with the usual scenes of charge and countercharge, but as one vast cemetery.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2020
It’s the stuff of the cheating husband whose wife finds a telltale hotel receipt in his suit and who responds to her charge with the outraged countercharge, “You went through my pockets?”
From Time ● Mar. 31, 2014
In this environment of acrimony and charge and countercharge, the anger of Majed al-Muhammad, the retired sergeant major, was of a type fueled by frustration and loss.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2012
He was too wise to run the risk of a countercharge, but four days later his opportunity came, and he took advantage of it to the full.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
The challenger barely stepped out of the way when the alpha countercharged.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2019
His union countercharged that a group of fly-by-night dressmakers were chiseling on union contracts.
From Time Magazine Archive
With considerable justification, the board countercharged that Richer was disrespectful and defiant, decided to fire him on the spot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Mellon promptly countercharged that, by failing to report all his philanthropies, he had actually overpaid his 1931 income tax by $139,045.
From Time Magazine Archive
On an encaustic tile at Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, founded by him: The double-headed eagle only, countercharged.
From Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Actual controlled detonations were more common in decades past, because without advanced robotic technology, countercharging was the easiest way to render bombs safe.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2013
But this apparent innocence did not keep the Chinese from countercharging that Japanese had caused the flood by shelling and bombing the dikes near Kaifeng.
From Time Magazine Archive
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