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COUNTERCLAIM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("counterclaim" is a kind of...):
action; action at law; legal action (a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Derivation:
counterclaim (set up a claim in opposition to a previous claim)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they counterclaim ... he / she / it counterclaims
Past simple: counterclaimed
Past participle: counterclaimed
-ing form: counterclaiming
Sense 1
Meaning:
Set up a claim in opposition to a previous claim
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "counterclaim" is one way to...):
claim (ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
counterclaim (a claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action)
