Usually means: Equivalent or corresponding person or thing.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word counterpart:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. counterpart: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. counterpart: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. counterpart: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. counterpart: Collins English Dictionary
  5. counterpart: Vocabulary.com
  6. Counterpart, counterpart: Wordnik
  7. counterpart: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. counterpart: Wiktionary
  9. counterpart: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. counterpart: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. counterpart: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. counterpart: Dictionary.com
  13. counterpart: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. counterpart: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Counterpart (TV series), Counterpart (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Counterpart: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. counterpart: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. counterpart: Rhymezone
  19. counterpart: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. counterpart: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. counterpart: Free Dictionary
  22. counterpart: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. counterpart: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. counterpart: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. counterpart: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Counterpart: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. counterpart: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. counterpart: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. counterpart: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. counterpart: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.
noun:  (law) A duplicate of a legal document.
noun:  One who or that which resembles another.
noun:  One who or that which has corresponding functions or characteristics.
noun:  (paleontology) Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil.
verb:  (transitive) To counterbalance.

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