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US
/ˈkaʊntɝˌpɑɹt/
]
[ UK /kˈaʊntəpˌɑːt/ ]
[ UK /kˈaʊntəpˌɑːt/ ]
NOUN
- a duplicate copy
- a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another
How To Use counterpart In A Sentence
- Fly fishers in the salt water environment need something entirely different to their freshwater counterpart on the chalk stream, as does the angler who fishes big reservoirs.
- Gamers familiar with some tracks will easily be able to pick out certain landmarks or other features from their real-life counterparts.
- British postal workers lag behind their continental counterparts. Times, Sunday Times
- But Frye's dreams of systematizing and co-ordinating a literary universe also rose to meet counterparts in Frances Yates's 1967 account of the zodiacs and theatres of the encyclopaedic memory systems of Bruno and Camillo.
- Our pupils and students leave schools and universities after an incredibly narrow diet of education compared with their international counterparts. Times, Sunday Times
- The handle on the German “potato-masher” hand grenade enabled it to be thrown far further than its British or American counterparts. Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy
- Again, the specter of counterparty risk becomes an issue.
- Despite the fact that a Dinky toy car can fetch many times more than its real life counterpart, it is still possible to find bargains.
- Compared to its refined counterpart, wholewheat pasta gives a slower, more sustained release of energy into the bloodstream, is higher in fibre and more nutritious too.
- Women who undergo cosmetic surgery still far outnumber their male counterparts.