counterpart

[ koun-ter-pahrt ]

noun

1. a person or thing closely resembling another, especially in function:

   Our president is the counterpart of your prime minister.

2. a copy; duplicate.
3. Law. a duplicate or copy of an indenture.
4. one of two parts that fit, complete, or complement one another.

counterpart

/ ˈkaʊntəˌpɑːt /

noun

1. a person or thing identical to or closely resembling another
2. one of two parts that complement or correspond to each other
3. a person acting opposite another in a play
4. a duplicate, esp of a legal document; copy

Word History and Origins

Origin of counterpart¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; counter-, part

Example Sentences

The North Star Inbound survey found that across the board women were making and charging less than their male counterparts, whether in agencies or as freelancers.

From Search Engine Land

As has become the standard, home teams in the WNBA wiped the floor with their visiting counterparts Tuesday night.

From FiveThirtyEight

Like Lehmiller suggested, cityside liberals may be taking contact restrictions more seriously than their rural, conservative counterparts.

From Nautilus

Both have grown for more than 20 years, but remain smaller than their counterparts in media or sports.

From Digiday

A new study looking at life expectancy in both countries shows the lifetimes of high-income Americans grew 140% faster than those of their low-income counterparts from 2001 to 2014.

From Quartz

Toss in Republican National Committee head Reince Priebus and his Democratic counterpart, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, too.

From The Daily Beast

A PPD agent tells his counterpart that Romney has about 15 minutes.

From The Daily Beast

But Islamic feminism, like its Western counterpart, is not without controversy.

From The Daily Beast

A similar request was not issued to his Russian counterpart.

From The Daily Beast

Like its feminine counterpart, manxiety stems, in large part, from doing life math.

From The Daily Beast

It had its counterpart on the political side in the rise of representative democratic government.

From Project Gutenberg

Love in the family found its counterpart in fellow-feeling in the tribe, in patriotism in the nation.

From Project Gutenberg

It is full of deceit, sham, and pharisaism—an aggravated counterpart of the outside world.

From Project Gutenberg

A counterpart of his father, and the favorite—only outwardly—of his mother.

From Project Gutenberg

These resolutions having been agreed to, the bill relating thereto, which was a counterpart of the former, was read a first time.

From Project Gutenberg