countersignverb [ T ]
uk/ˈkaʊn.tə.saɪn/us/ˈkaʊn.t̬ɚ.saɪn/specializedto write your name on a document that already has the signature (= name written) of another person, especially in order to show that you are certain that the first person is who they say they are
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Signing & signatures
- anon
- autograph
- cosignatory
- John Hancock
- notarize
- sign
- sign (sb) in
- sign (sb) out
- sign (sth) off
- sign for sth
- sign for/with sb
- sign on
- sign sth away
- sign sth out
- sign sth over
- signature
- signing
- tag
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Examples from literature
- These declarations had been made before witnesses, whom the father had asked to countersign his report.
- Yet Sir Gregory delivered it with an incisive gusto, desperately countersigning his own death warrant.