Word (or morpheme) that is used in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns.
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Examples for "counter"
Examples for "counter"
1Their colleagues in Congress hope to counter the new rules with legislation.
2An over-the-counter equity market, the New Third Board, saw a similar fate.
3His book is a case study of a counter-insurgency war gone wrong.
4Israel takes in droves of Palestinian refugees fleeing the counter-humanist Palestinian laws.
5PwC partner David Stebbings advised companies to monitor bank counter-party risk daily.
1It may mean counting words, but it may mean something else entirely.
2She didn't think there were even enough counting words for them all.
3How could someone raised by flatheads have any understanding of counting words?
4She remembered the years better her way, but she liked the counting words.
5It made the counting words so much more powerful when used like that.
1Then keep your vocabulary clean of bargain- counter words.
1I am... She stopped to think of the right counting word.
2Mamut said five was Her counting word of hidden authority.
3We say five is Her sacred counting word.
4Five is also the Mother's sacred counting word.
5The number of fingers on one hand, five, is an important counting word in its own right.
1The measured words of Accountant Somers were still ringing in his ears:
2This is a classic Two-Step move: maintain independence, but use mild, measured words.
3Water, Ivor was thinking, as the measured words flowed over him.
4There was something final and convincing in his companion's measured words.
5We have reached a stage where measured words stand out.
6As he uttered these measured words, General Lee saluted and disappeared in the smoke.
7The speaker's slow, measured words had a certain hypnotic quality.
8Doomforge forced a breath through her nose, then spoke with deliberate and measured words.
9Allendyce stopped short, for his usual measured words seemed out of place at this moment.
10The court, in coldly measured words, hopes the audience will evince no excitement pro or con.
11And then the captain spoke, in slow, measured words that cut her to her inmost soul.
12Finally he spoke, slowly, his measured words scarcely audible above the muffled beat of the propeller.
13With measured words he told Philip what to think of Rodin, Albert Samain, and Caesar Franck.
14For some reason or other, Immelan accepted these measured words of prophecy as a total reprieve.
15Analysts said Medvedev's measured words calling for more time for reform revealed a desire to run again.
16Let me tell, in the measured words of one describing a past incident, what next took place.