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counterpart|ˈkaʊntəpɑːt|
[counter- 8: cf. F. contre-partie (13th c. in Godef. Suppl.)]
1. Law. The opposite part of an indenture, q.v.; each of the indented parts of a deed of contract, etc., in its relation to the other part; esp. that which is not considered the principal part or original, e.g. the executed copy of a lease or receipt retained by the grantor as a counter-security.
1617Sir R. Boyle Diary (1886) I. 160 Sir Walter Raleigh..endorsed with his own hand on the counterpart of the lease. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 296 When the several parts of an indenture are interchangeably executed by the several parties, that part or copy which is executed by the grantor is usually called the original, and the rest are counterparts. 1808Regul. Service at Sea v. ii. §16 The Captain is to keep Counterparts of all the Accounts of the Receipt and Expenditure of Stores and Provisions with which the Ship shall be supplied. 1858Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xvi. 107 A counterpart of the lease is to be executed by the lessee. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xxvi. 644 It does not seem that any counterpart was delivered to the borrower.
fig.a1720Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) (1753) I. 120 And this contract [friendship] will never hold, without an exact counterpart.
†2. gen. A duplicate, or exact copy. Obs.
a1676Hale Law Eng. (J.), In some things the laws of Normandy agreed with the laws of England; so that they seem to be, as it were, copies or counterparts one of another. 1712Addison Spect. No. 267 ⁋4 In The Spanish Friar..the two different Plots look like Counterparts and Copies of one another.
3. fig. A person or thing so answering to another as to appear a duplicate or exact copy of it.
a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 136 So like in all Things, that one Brother Is but a Counterpart of th' other. 1785Cowper Tiroc. 442 He, that seemed our counterpart at first, Soon shows the strong similitude revers'd. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 31 A full-length portrait..the very counterpart of his visitor of the preceding night. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. App. 429 You can..build up a sandstone mass which shall be the exact counterpart of that presented by nature.
b. A person or thing not exactly similar to another, but serving as its equivalent in a different context.
1903G. B. Shaw Revolutionist's Handbk. ix, in Man & Superman 218 It is frightful for the citizen..that his companions of thirty years ago have their counterparts in every city crowd. 1908E. F. Benson Climber iii. 32 She wanted to have everything,..and had Mephistopheles, or his feminine counterpart, come in at the moment, the bargain would have been struck. 1948E. Waugh Loved One i. 3 The two Englishmen, each in his rocking-chair,..the counterparts of numberless fellow-countrymen exiled in the barbarous regions of the world. 1961G. F. Kennan Russia & West i. 4 The German Social Democratic Party was the greatest Marxist political organization in the world, far outshadowing its weak Russian counterpart. 1970A. Toffler Future Shock xi. 224 Young people today already leave home sooner than their counterparts a generation ago. 1983M. Edwardes Back from Brink iii. 35 With the same power at his elbow as his Continental counterpart the British car assembly worker produces only half as much output per shift.
4. One of two parts which fit and complete each other; a person or thing forming a natural complement to another.
1634Wither Emblems 99 To meet each other's nat'rall Counterpart. a1700Dryden (J.), Oh counterpart Of our soft sex; well are you made our lords. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. I. xvi. 392 Popular fury finds its counterpart in courtly servility. 1833Chalmers Const. Man (1835) I. ii. 112 In counterpart to this complacency..there is a felt discomfort. 1880Haughton Phys. Geog. ii. 19 Deep-sea valleys..are the counterparts of the mountain chains.
5. Music. A part written ‘against’ or to accompany another. [counter- 12.]
[1597Morley Introd. Mus. 154 Lkewise betwixt the treble and counter part another might easilie be placed.] 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Counter-part..a Term in Musick, only importing one Part to be opposite to another; as the Bass is said To be the Counter-part of the Treble. 1806Gregory Dict. Arts & Sc. I. 446.
6. attrib. spec. Applied to a sum of money in local currency of an amount equivalent to goods and services received from another country.
1833Chalmers Const. Man (1835) I. iii. 155 Urging onward their counterpart desires. 1885Law Times Rep. LI. 662/1 The parties having come to an agreement..the terms thereof were embodied in two counterpart documents. 1954Ann. Reg. 1953 192 The U.S.A. was making available 900 million guilders from counterpart funds for dyke and road repairs. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Aug. 486/3 American ‘counterpart funds’ accruing in Britain and other European countries from official American aid or strategic purchases. 1961R. E. Asher Grants, Loans, & Local Currencies v. 127 If the imports come as grant aid and are sold within the country, the foreign government will have, in a counterpart fund, local currency. |