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n. One that closely resembles another.

n. One that has the same functions and characteristics as another; a corresponding person or thing: Their foreign minister is the counterpart of our secretary of state.

n. A copy or duplicate of a legal paper.

n. One of two parts that fit and complete each other.

n. One that serves as a complement.

n. Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.

n. A duplicate of a legal document.

n. One which resembles another

n. One which has corresponding functions or characteristics.

n. A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile.

n. One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate.

n. A person who closely resembles another.

n. A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another thing, or which supplements it; that which serves to complete or complement anything; hence, a person or thing having qualities lacking in another; an opposite.

n. A correspondent part; a part that answers to another, as the several parts or copies of an indenture corresponding to the original; a copy; a duplicate.

n. The complement, as a certificate of hiring given by a tenant to his landlord on receiving from him a certificate of letting, or a bought note given to the seller on receiving the sold note.

n. A person or thing exactly resembling another or corresponding to another in appearance, character, position, influence, and the like; a representative; a match; a fellow.

n. One of two parts which fit each other, as a cipher and its key, or a seal and its impression; hence, a thing that supplements another thing or completes it, or a person having qualities wanting in another, and such as compensate for the other's deficiencies.

n. In music, the part to be arranged or used in connection with another: as, the bass is the counterpart to the treble.

n. a duplicate copy

n. a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another

"I am posted to be working with the local district hospital here in Banyo and my counterpart is the head nurse who is originally from the western part of Cameroon."

duplicate    duplication   

counterbalance    counterweight    countersign    counterpoint    partner   

copy    duplicate    facsimile    opposite    double    opposite number    equivalent    pendant   

equivalent    entity    diplomat    ancestry    standpoint    origin    journalist    perspective    version    domination