Definitions
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- noun An
effort made inopposition to another.
Etymologies
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counter- + effort
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Examples
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But now the nation's leading scientists began to take his attacks seriously, and there was a countereffort.
Space Michener, James 1982
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The French, learning of the mining operations of their foes, started a countereffort with the result that there was a succession of fierce skirmishes under the surface of the earth.
The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902
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Gore is spearheading the Reality Campaign, a countereffort with environmental groups like the Sierra Club featuring an ad by the Coen brothers that's known as "No Country for Coal Men."
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