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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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verb
To schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete or contrast with a program broadcast simultaneously on another station.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
By extension, to engage in similar competitive posturing or scheduling in any comparable situation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
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- English program English counterprogram From counter- + program.
