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Definition: COUNTERSIGNED |
COUNTERSIGNEDImperative & past participle1. Of Countersign |
Date "COUNTERSIGNED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Crosswords: COUNTERSIGNED |
| English words defined with "COUNTERSIGNED": Counter signature ♦ Hatti-sherif. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "COUNTERSIGNED": Pocket Judgment ♦ Traveler's Checks. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Greece | The president also can exercise certain emergency powers, which must be countersigned by the appropriate cabinet minister. (references) |
Hungary | Before registration is complete, but after an attorney at law or a notary public has countersigned the statutes, the company can operate as a "pre-company." A pre-company may pursue business activities only after the application for registration has been submitted. (references) | |
Trade | Egypt | Certificates are still required to be countersigned by the Chamber of Commerce and notarized by the Egyptian Embassy or Consulate in the country of origin, or any other Arab Consulate if there is no Egyptian Embassy or Consulate in the country of origin. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "COUNTERSIGNED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 68.75% of the time. "COUNTERSIGNED" is used about 16 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 68.75% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 25% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "COUNTERSIGNED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 副署 (Countersign, Countersigning). (various references) | ||||
French | contresignés, contresignée, contresigna. (various references) | ||||
German | bestätigte (acknowledged, probated, ratified, validated). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ountersignedcay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-g-i-n-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: constringed, countersign, tendencious. | |
-3 letters: centurions, coenduring, constringe, construing, contenders, continuers, coresident, countering, courtesied, decentring, denouncers, discounter, encounters, encrusting, endergonic, endocrines, estrogenic, grindstone, indentures, insurgence, internodes, introduces, negritudes, neurogenic, outgrinned, recognised, recounting, redingotes, rediscount, reductions, resounding, stringendo, turgencies, uncensored, uncorseted, undertones, unescorted. | |
-4 letters: ceintures, censoring, censuring, centering, centrings, centroids, centuries, centurion, cinereous, coendures, coinsured. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-g-i-n-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+5 letters: counteradvertising. | |
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