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countercharge

[ US /ˈkaʊntɝˌtʃɑɹdʒ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser
  2. a retaliatory charge

How To Use countercharge In A Sentence

  • | Reply | Permalink countercharge that for so long set Dems quaking and scurrying off to their consultants for advice. Obama Decries "Second Gilded Age"
  • Debates help them break through the blaze of hyperbolic attacks and confusing countercharges.
  • His lawyers—plural—threatened a countercharge of police harassment, and Ms. Caroline King had declined to press charges. Tough Customer
  • Countercharge's implicating nature is to point to a countercharge and to appeal in legal action reason or go at defense method to mount existence in fact or legally connection.
  • They weren’t nearly as willing to accept the countercharge from the Obama campaign that Clinton herself had flip-flopped in answering the question (earlier in the year, while criticizing Bush’s recalcitrance about meeting with rogue leaders, she had expressed practically the same sentiment as Obama), because such a slip-up didn’t track with the emerging campaign narrative of Clinton as disciplined and savvy. Teacher and Apprentice
  • Police countercharged, arresting some of what they described as a hard core of 500 bent on confrontation. CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2007
  • The decision to aim at a higher target led to huge increases in cost and lengthy postponements in the timetable, as well as charges and countercharges over where responsibility rested for the new expenses and the delays.
  • I think right now there's a sense that both sides are getting tired of all the countercharges.
  • Authorized rights consist of the right to acknowledge for litigants, the right of conciliation and the right to countercharge and so on.
  • And what responsibility do we have to sort out the charges and countercharges that are being thrown on the stump and on the airwaves?
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