Countersign

Definition: Countersign

Countersign

Noun

1. A secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group; "he forgot the password".

2. A second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed.

Verb

1. Add one's signature to after another's to attest authenticity; "You must countersign on this line of the contract".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "countersign" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Military & Defense

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Countersign

Assent

Confirm, affirm; ratify, appprove, indorse, countersign; corroborate.

Evidence

Indorse, countersign, corroborate, support, ratify, bear out, uphold, warrant.

Indication

Badge, criterion; countercheck, countermark, countersign, counterfoil; duplicate, tally; label, ticket, billet, letter, counter, check, chip, chop; dib; totem; tessera, card, bill; witness, voucher; stamp; cacher; trade mark, Hall mark.

Security

Guarantee, warrant, warrantee, assure; accept, indorse, underwrite, insure;cosign, countersign, sponsor, cosponsor.

Crosswords: Countersign

Books

• Daniel Libeskind: Countersign (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

kundërparullë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كلمة السر (parole, password, watchword), ‏صدق على الامضاء, ‏التخويش, ‏الإمضاء المصدق, ‏ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant), ‏شعار (banner, brand, device, emblem, motto, sign, slogan, tag, watchword). (various references)

Bulgarian 

контрапарола, заверка (attestation), пропуск (blank, flaw, gap, lapse, negligence, omission, out, oversight, pass, permit, pretermission, protection, safe conduct, skip, slip, slip up). (various references)

Chinese 

暗號 (cipher, secret signal), 副署 (Countersigned, Countersigning). (various references)

Czech

spolupodepsat, kontrasignovat. (various references)

Danish

løsen (password), kendeord (codeword, keyword, password), feltråb (password). (various references)

Farsi 

جیرو, امضای ثانوی برروی سند, ظهرنویسی (Endorsement). (various references)

Finnish

varmentaa (certify, confirm). (various references)

French

contresigner. (various references)

German

gegenzeichnen. (various references)

Greek 

προσυπογράφω. (various references)

Hebrew 

לחתום חתימ�" � וספת, סיסמ�" (motto, slogan, watchword). (various references)

Hungarian

ellenjegyzés (counter-signature). (various references)

Italian

controfirmare (back), controfirma, contrassegno (attribute, cachet, characteristic, counter, earmark, Mark, tally), contrassegnare (earmark, label, Mark, tag). (various references)

Manx

cowrey ainjys, co-screeu (context, correspond by letter). (various references)

Pig Latin

ountersigncay

Portuguese

contra-senha (password), confirmar (acknowledge, affirm, approve, assure, confirm, corroborate, corroboratory, endorse, firm, grant, hold true, indorse, ratify, sanction, seal, to confirm, vouch), rubricar (initial, rubricate, sign), rubrica (caption, check, column, header, imprint, item, raddle, reddle, rubric, ruddle, signature), ratificar (acknowledge, affirm, confirm, corroborate, homologate, ratify, recompense, sanction). (various references)

Romanian

contrasemnãturã (counter-signature), contrasemna, parolã (catchword, order word, parole, password, watchword, word). (various references)

Russian 

контрассигнация, пароль (catchword, parole, password, shibboleth, watchword, word). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sapotpisati, sapotpis. (various references)

Spanish

visar (to approve beforehand), refrendo, refrendar (to authenticate), dar un refrendo. (various references)

Swedish

kontrasignera. (various references)

Turkish

parola (catchword, cipher, motto, parole, password, shibboleth, slogan, watchword, word), onaylamak (accept, acknowledge, affirm, approve, attest, authorise, authorize, be recognizant of, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, endorse, give countenance to, grant, hear, hold with, homologate, indorse, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, lend countenance to, o.k., ok, okay, ratify, recognize, sanction, smile on, stamp, subscribe, sustain, to confirm, uphold, validate, verify, visa, vise, vouch, witness), onay imzası (countersignature), ikinci imza (countersignature). (various references)

Ukrainian

ставити другий підпис, скріпа, контрасигнація, проба (alloy, analysis, approof, audition, hallmark, novitiate, plate-mark, proof, proving, taste, tasting, try out), перепустка (billet, chit, conduct, order, password, permit, protection, word), пароль (catchword, nay-word, order word, parole, password, watchword, word). (various references)

Vietnamese 

khẩu lệnh (catchword, password). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "countersign": countersignature, countersignatures, countersigned, countersigning, countersigns. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Countersign" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: counterion. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: centurions, constringe, construing, continuers, countering, encrusting, recounting.

-2 letters: censoring, censuring, centrings, centurion, congruent, continuer, continues, contusing, corseting, countries, cretinous, escorting, insurgent, necrosing, neurotics, neutrinos, neutronic, nitrogens, nocturnes, sectoring, tonsuring, trouncing.

-3 letters: centring, citreous, coinsure, cointers, construe, continue, coreigns, corniest, cosigner, counters, counties, counting, coursing, courting, cresting, crusting, encoring, enginous, ensuring, eructing, escoting, genitors.

+1 letter: countersigns, countersuing.

+2 letters: counterposing, countersigned, incongruities, rediscounting, undercoatings.

+3 letters: counterpoising, countershading, countersigning, countersinking, counterstating, deconstructing, reconstituting, reconstructing, underclothings.

+4 letters: centrifugations, countershadings, counterstaining, counterstepping, overdiscounting, superconducting.

+5 letters: countercampaigns, counterespionage, counterinsurgent, countersignature, overconstructing, reconfigurations.