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# counterpart

«counterpart» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or thing that has the same job or place as…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a counterpart, counterparts)

### meaning for a pupil

A counterpart is a person or thing that has the same job or place as another, but in a different group, country or situation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counterpart/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in news and history: the Prime Minister meets his or her counterparts (other leaders); a head teacher meets counterparts from other schools. In science, it compares matching things: the human arm and its counterpart, the bird's wing. Phrases: «his French counterpart», «a digital counterpart».

### examples

- The British Prime Minister met her Canadian counterpart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counterpart/#x1)
- Our class captain chatted with her counterpart from the visiting school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counterpart/#x2)
- The bird's wing is the counterpart of the human arm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counterpart/#x3)
- The e-book is the digital counterpart of the paper book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counterpart/#x4)
- The US president spoke with his counterpart in Japan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counterpart/#x5)
- Our school's head teacher wrote to her counterpart in Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counterpart/#x6)
- As Ilya is the counterpart of Thor, so does Nicholas in some respects resemble Odin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counterpart/#x7)

### note

Countable. Counterpart means «the matching one elsewhere», not «the opposite one»: an opponent is someone against you, a counterpart is someone like you on another side.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «counterpart» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/counterpart/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.