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counterpart  

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  • NomPLcounterpartsPREcounter-
    1. Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.
      1. Those brass knobs and their hollow counterparts interlock perfectly
    2. (law) A duplicate of a legal document.
      1. One which resembles another.
        1. One which has corresponding functions or characteristics.
          1. 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.
        2. (paleontology) Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil.
        3. Plus d'exemples
          1. Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
            • Unlike the Cowardly Lion, his American counterpart from thirty years earlier, he not only suffers from faint-heartedness, but from behaving accordingly.
            • Males castrated at birth are smaller (Field et al., 1997a ), and females ovariectomized at birth are larger than their intact male and female counterparts (Field et al., 2004 ).
          2. Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
            • Early on, the New Yorkers clearly outpower their West Coast counterparts.
            • They are also deterred from such activities because transdisciplinary pursuits tend to be intrinsically more time-consuming than their intradisciplinary counterparts.
            • This is so despite the fact that the disableds are better qualified and their performance within the work situation the same or even better than that of their ablebodied counterparts.

        Meaning of counterpart for the defined word.

        Grammaticalement, ce mot "counterpart" est un nom, plus spécifiquement, un noms dénombrable.
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          1. en counterparts
          2. en counterparty
          3. en counterparties
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