noun
Meaning 1
An offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
counteroffer
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Pronunciation
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CMU ARPABET: K AW1 N T ER0 AO2 F ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To offer as a counteroffer.
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noun
Meaning 3
an offer made by someone who has rejected a prior offer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: offer, offering
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrāder. Old French contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor. Middle English counter- English counter- Proto-Indo-European *h2ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h2epó Proto-Germanic *ab Proto-West Germanic *ab Old English æf Old English of Middle English of English off English -er English offer English counteroffer From counter- + offer.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: контрапредложение (kontrapredloženie) — offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer
- Catalan: contraoferta — offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer
- Dutch: tegenaanbod — offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer
- Dutch: tegenbod — offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer
- Finnish: vastatarjous — offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer
- French: contre-offre — offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer
- French: contre-proposition — offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer
- German: Gegenangebot — offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer
- Greek: αντιπροσφορά (antiprosforá) — offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer
- Greek: αντιπρόταση (antiprótasi) — offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer
- Polish: kontroferta — offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer
- Russian: встре́чное предложе́ние (vstréčnoje predložénije) — offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer
- Russian: контрпредложе́ние (kontrpredložénije) — offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer
- Spanish: contraoferta — offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer
- Ukrainian: контрпропози́ція (kontrpropozýcija) — offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer
- Finnish: tehdä vastatarjous — offer as a counteroffer
- Greek: αντιπροσφέρω (antiprosféro) — offer as a counteroffer