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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
counterpart
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
female
▪ But where are their female counterparts?
▪ Their female counterparts were earning 7. 7 percent less in 1995 than in 1989-13 percent less after correcting for inflation.
▪ Generally speaking, a widower or divorced man was three times as likely to remarry as his female counterpart throughout the period.
▪ Along with his female counterpart, Mamn Brigitte, Ghede will guard the local cemetery.
▪ A more likely scenario is that male rape victims would be afforded the same shoddy treatment as their female counterparts.
▪ Their female counterparts are to be found in the studios of the Esther and Kilroy shows.
foreign
▪ Partnerships - How to forge more formal links with your foreign counterparts for joint ventures.
human
▪ The function of its human counterpart is likely to be very similar.
male
▪ Elizabeth Jerichau-Baumann's undated painting Odalisque subscribes to the stereotypes of the female nude propagated by her male counterparts.
▪ Fifty-eight percent say they are no worse than their male counterparts.
▪ Besides being paid less per hour the majority of women employees in both sectors work fewer hours than their male counterparts.
▪ Women who undergo cosmetic surgery still far outnumber their male counterparts.
▪ Furthermore, they found that female clerical workers were much less likely to achieve promotion than their male counterparts.
▪ Female managers generally have less difficulty and embarrassment with this topic than do their male counterparts.
▪ But far be it for us to shed crocodile tears over the bruised egos of our male counterparts.
▪ And life for their male counterparts may be no less bleak.
modern
▪ These extinct fishes were unlike their modern counterparts in possessing a dermal skeleton of minute scales and/or bony plates.
▪ Typically, old policies provided broader cover than their modern counterparts.
southern
▪ Even the huge ring roads around Lille, Tourcoing, Roubaix and Courtrai seem more basic than their southern counterparts.
▪ Northern church leaders used equally strong language about their southern counterparts.
soviet
▪ That society was then regarded in London and Moscow as the association's proper Soviet counterpart.
▪ Unlike their Soviet counterparts, few western texts indulged in lengthy discussion of a work's subject matter.
▪ Some lived, comparatively speaking, as well or better than their Soviet counterparts.
western
▪ Its western counterpart apparently remained open, being used at one stage for spelt cultivation.
▪ But, rather more than their Western counterparts, they had a taste and a love for literature.
▪ Like their western counterparts, they often did dwell upon the dark side of life.
▪ They have preferred to regard them as basically sharing the mentality of their Western counterparts.
white
▪ For the most part, black sportsmen accept that they have advantages, in an unspecified way, over their white counterparts.
▪ Only 0. 5 percent of their white counterparts were similarly under control of the criminal justice system, it said.
▪ Just under 30 percent of black trainees obtain work as opposed to just over 45 percent of their white counterparts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bars in Madrid offer more, and better, food than their American counterparts.
▪ Belgian government officials are discussing the matter with their counterparts in France.
▪ Eighteenth-century urban dwellers lived in much worse conditions than their modern counterparts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For the most part, black sportsmen accept that they have advantages, in an unspecified way, over their white counterparts.
▪ In general, the provincial circuit is a far tougher cookie than its metropolitan counterpart.
▪ In this respect orthodox medicine may have placed itself at some disadvantage to its complementary counterparts.
▪ In turn, their active counterparts work with renewed energy and pray for them.
▪ Wilzcek agreed that the newer, West Coast institutions probably put more emphasis on science than their more traditional East Coast counterparts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Counterpart

Counterpart \Coun"ter*part`\ (koun"t[~e]r*p[aum]rt`), n.

  1. A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile.

    In same things the laws of Normandy agreed with the laws of England, so that they seem to be, as it were, copies or counterparts one of another.
    --Sir M. Hale.

  2. (Law) One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate.

  3. A person who closely resembles another.

  4. A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another thing, or which supplements it; that which serves to complete or complement anything; hence, a person or thing having qualities lacking in another; an opposite.

    O counterpart Of our soft sex, well are you made our lords.
    --Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
counterpart

mid-15c., originally countre part "duplicate of a legal document," from Middle French contrepartie, from contre "facing, opposite" (see contra-) + partie "copy of a person or thing," originally fem. past participle of partir "to divide" (see party (n.)).

Wiktionary
counterpart

n. Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.

WordNet
counterpart

  1. n. a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another [syn: opposite number, vis-a-vis]

  2. a duplicate copy [syn: similitude, twin]

Wikipedia
Counterpart

Counterpart or Counterparts may refer to:

Counterpart (TV series)

Counterpart is an upcoming American espionage thriller television series created by Justin Marks, ordered to series by the premium cable network Starz. The first two episodes will be directed by Morten Tyldum.

Usage examples of "counterpart".

Mark sat back, not terribly worried about Abram person ally, but if his counterpart was preoccupied, the FBI should be, too.

American society, those black offenders who have become more acculturated into mainstream society will begin imitating the behavior and custom of their white offender counterparts.

Our aces are scheduled to lunch with three of their Mexican counterparts.

The most direct effect of censorship was to make the Russian writer resort to the techniques of Aesopian language more often than his counterparts in Europe or the United States found it necessary to do.

The explosion would go on until every last atom of antihydrogen had met its counterpart.

Not a way of life, machine-assisted cloning is the biosocial counterpart of a hobby.

The counterpart in real life to this unwholesome bluejacket was actually my starting point.

Christ appears, moreover, an original Cathar tradition which does not have any counterpart in the Bogomil doctrines.

I think your counterparts in the political and diplomatic castes would have something to say about not being consulted before you did anything .

In adjusting and reacting to unexpected situations, the contrast between men like Generals Roosevelt and Cota, Colonels Canham and Otway, Major Howard, Captain Dawson, Lieutenants Spaulding and Winters, and their German counterparts could not have been greater.

There are no grounds at the moment for postulating that the counterparts of electrical charge, coulomb attraction, and hence molecular adhesion were anything like the quantities we know.

For instance, in the view of some critics, literary realism carries with it an implicit validation of conservative social structures: for others, the formal and metrical intricacies of the sonnet and the iambic pentameter are a counterpart of social stability, decorum, and order.

He also knew his damnyankee counterparts were doing everything they could to arm the Negro terrorists in the CSA.

Ogier make up a portion of the Deathwatch, although they are the only ones not property, and are considered incredibly fierce and more deadly than their human counterparts.

Putney makes an especially important point that well-trained and adjusted war dogs can return to civil life just like their human counterparts.