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Definition: Counterclaim |
CounterclaimNoun1. A claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action. Verb1. Set up a claim in opposition to a previous claim, as in law. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "counterclaim" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Law | A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Compensation | Set-off, offset; make-weight, casting-weight; counterpoise, ballast; indemnity, equivalent, quid pro,quo; bribe, hush money; amends; (atonement); counterbalance, counterclaim; cross-debt, cross-demand. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Counterclaim |
| English words defined with "counterclaim": Set-off. (references) |
| "Counterclaim" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.17% of the time. "Counterclaim" is used about 103 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.17% | 97 | 33,269 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.85% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.97% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 103 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
counterclaim | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "counterclaim"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kundërkërkesë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | دعوة (bid, bidding, call, calling, invitation, meeting, summons). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | насрещен иск (set off), претенция (claim, pretence, pretense, pretension). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wedereis, tegenvordering (cross claim, cross-action), tegeneis (cross claim, cross-action), tegenclaim, tegenaanklacht (cross claim, cross-action), eis in reconventie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ادعای متقابل . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vastasyyte (cross claim, cross-action), vastakanne (cross claim, cross-action). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | contre-prétention, plainte reconventionnelle, demande reconventionnelle, demande, action reconventionnelle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Widerklage (cross action), Gegenforderung (counter claim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανταπαίτηση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tuntutan balasan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | controquerela, contropretesa, domanda riconvenzionale, azione riconvenzionale (cross claim, cross-action). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 反訴 (counteraction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | は"そ (counteraction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ounterclaimcay contra-pretensão, pedido reconvencional (cross claim, cross-action). (various references) reclamación convencional. (various references) genkäromål (cross claim, cross-action). (various references) karşı dava açmak (set off), karşı dava (cross action). (various references) контрпретензія, зустрічний позов. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "counterclaim": counterclaimed, counterclaiming, counterclaims. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-l-m-n-o-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: macronuclei. | |
-2 letters: inculcator, tourmaline, ulceration. | |
-3 letters: accretion, anorectic, antiulcer, circulate, cremation, culminate, emulation, inculcate, inoculate, manticore, melanotic, mucronate, nucleator, numerical, tularemic. | |
-4 letters: accentor, accouter, accoutre, acentric, acetonic, aconitum, acrolect, acrolein, amelcorn, amitrole, anoretic, anuretic, auntlier, calutron, canticle, caruncle, cilantro, cincture, clarinet, cocinera, coinmate, colinear, columnar, concerti, contrail, cornicle, cornmeal, cortical, coumaric, coumarin, courante, cratonic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-l-m-n-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: counterclaims. | |
+2 letters: counterclaimed. | |
+3 letters: counterclaiming. | |
+4 letters: countercomplaint, microencapsulate, undemocratically. | |
+5 letters: countercommercial, countercomplaints, microencapsulated, microencapsulates. | |
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