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UK
/kˈaʊntəsˌaɪn/
]
NOUN
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a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
he forgot the password - a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed
VERB
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add one's signature to after another's to attest authenticity
You must countersign on this line of the contract
How To Use countersign In A Sentence
- Patients received a letter from their medical facility countersigned by the project director informing them about the study and about a phone call to follow.
- Obtain African development bank line long with China people bank line long countersign of certificate.
- Once countersigned, they guaranteed payment on sight at Philadelphia, either in hard coin or in bills of exchange on London. Robert Morris
- Competitor aged under 21, this application form must be countersigned by guardian.
- If that were the case, Secretary White might justifiably (and lawfully) refuse to countersign the certificate on ethical grounds based on the manifest impropriety of Blago's action. Illinois Sec. of State Refuses To Approve Burris Appointment, But Admits He Really Can't Stop It
- In emergency situations, the prescription order must be countersigned by the prescribing physician or dentist within 72 hours.
- The Proclamation which you have just heard read by the Governor-General's Official Secretary was countersigned by Malcolm Fraser.
- The Pharmacy Department requires that all Surfactant orders be signed or countersigned by the staff neonatologist.
- In return for their deposits the nomads were given receipts issued by Nur Muhammad that they presented to Nur Muhammad's subcontracted broker and weighman in Peshawar, Jit Mall and his brother, respectively, who countersigned the receipts. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
- The complainant countersigned the inspection form.
