- a person or thing that has the same position or function as somebody/something else in a different place or situation
- The Foreign Minister held talks with his Chinese counterpart.
- The women's shoe, like its male counterpart, is specifically designed for the serious tennis player.
Extra Examples- European environmentalists have their counterparts in the US.
- The actress who played the Queen looked uncannily like her real-life counterpart.
- Women soldiers will join their male counterparts at the army base.
- corporations that trade with their counterparts in other countries
- the difficulty of translating terms with no direct counterpart in the other language
- the modern counterparts of those medieval writers
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- direct
- modern
- female
- …
- have
- counterpart in
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