Counterclaim

Definition: Counterclaim

Counterclaim

Noun

1. A claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action.

Verb

1. Set up a claim in opposition to a previous claim, as in law.

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

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.

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

Portuguese		contra-pretensão, pedido reconvencional (cross claim, cross-action). (various references)

Spanish		reclamación convencional. (various references)

Swedish		genkäromål (cross claim, cross-action). (various references)

Turkish		karşı dava açmak (set off), karşı dava (cross action). (various references)

Ukrainian		контрпретензія, зустрічний позов. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation 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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Counterclaim

Definition: Counterclaim

Counterclaim

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definition: Counterclaim

Law

Synonyms within Context: Counterclaim

Compensation

Crosswords: Counterclaim

Usage Frequency: Counterclaim

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Counterclaim

counterclaim

Modern Translation: Counterclaim

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Derivations: Counterclaim

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Anagrams: Counterclaim

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INDEX

Expression	Frequency per Day
counterclaim	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.