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English
Etymology
From Middle English conterpart, countre parte (“duplicate of a legal document”), equivalent to counter- + part. Compare Old French contrepartie, itself from contre (“facing, opposite”) (from Latin contra (“against”)) + partie (“copy of a person or thing”) (originally past participle of partīre (“to divide”)).
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Noun
counterpart (plural counterparts)
- Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.
- Those brass knobs and their hollow counterparts interlock perfectly.
2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:Mr. Obama never found a generational counterpart among conservatives in Congress like Paul D. Ryan or Eric Cantor; instead, there was a mutual animosity.
- (law) A duplicate of a legal document.
- One who or that which resembles another. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- One who or that which has corresponding functions or characteristics.
1962 July, “Talking of Trains: The new all-line timetable”, in Modern Railways, page 10:Its incompleteness in this respect makes the timetable of less value than some of its Continental counterparts, such as the French Horaires Mayeux; nevertheless, it is fair value at 5s.
2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:England's attacking impetus was limited to one shot from Lampard that was comfortably collected by keeper Iker Casillas, but for all Spain's domination of the ball his England counterpart Joe Hart was unemployed.
- (paleontology) Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil.
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either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another
law: duplicate of a legal document
something that resembles something else
one which has corresponding functions or characteristics
- Arabic: نَظِير (ar) m (naẓīr)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 對方/对方 (zh) (duìfāng)
- Czech: protějšek m
- Dutch: evenknie (nl) m or f, tegenhanger (nl) m, tegenpartij (nl) m, tegenspeler (nl) m, equivalent (nl) n
- Finnish: vastine (fi)
- French: homologue (fr) m or f
- German: Gegenüber (de) n
- Greek: ομόλογος (el) m (omólogos), ομόλογη (el) f (omólogi)
- Irish: (please verify) macasamhail f
- Japanese: 相手 (ja) (あいて, aite)
- Korean: 상대방(相對方) (ko) (sangdaebang), 상대(相對) (ko) (sangdae)
- Maori: hāngaitanga
- Russian: (analogue) ана́лог (ru) m (análog), (colleague) колле́га (ru) m or f (kolléga), контраге́нт (ru) m (kontragént), проти́вная сторона́ f (protívnaja storoná)
- Slovak: náprotivok m
- Spanish: homólogo (es) m, homóloga (es) f
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Verb
counterpart (third-person singular simple present counterparts, present participle counterparting, simple past and past participle counterparted)
- (transitive) To counterbalance. (Can we add an example for this sense?)