countercheck
Americannoun
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a check that opposes or restrains.
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a check controlling or confirming another check.
verb (used with object)
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to oppose or restrain (a tendency, force, trend, etc.) by contrary action.
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to control or confirm by a second check.
noun
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a check or restraint, esp one that acts in opposition to another
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a restraint that reinforces another restraint
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a double check, as for accuracy
verb
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to oppose by counteraction
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to control or restrain by a second check
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to double-check
Etymology
Origin of countercheck
Example Sentences
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Comptroller General McCarl has not had authority to check and countercheck the expenditure of Federal emergency appropriations, nor has Budget Director Douglas had power to plan their spending.
From Time Magazine Archive
To have his keys to count and countercheck.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
This countercheck I wasn't aware of, Sittah; My queen must fall the sacrifice.
From Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts by William Taylor
That word fell on his ear for the first time from a white man's lips, and the stupefaction of it was a countercheck to his grief.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
It was not possible more cleverly to meet every difficulty, to countercheck every contingency, than by this subtle scheme.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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