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  • noun A threat made in response to an earlier threat by another party

Etymologies

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counter- +‎ threat

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Examples

  • The White House and Democrats in Congress -- threat and counterthreat over top Bush advisers answering questions about the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, over letting them answer or making them answer.

    CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2007 2007

  • Open your mouth a little, which indicates a bit of a counterthreat, suggesting that you will respond to any aggression if the dog initiates it.

    How to Speak Dog Stanley Coren 2000

  • Not that the forest creatures were without defenses: for millions of years threat and counterthreat had evolved here.

    A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

  • The spiral of piling weapon system upon weapon system, threat upon counterthreat, only becomes ever more deadly, and there is absolutely no way out except through genuine unilateral initiatives of weakness and vulnerability.

    THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987

  • The spiral of piling weapon system upon weapon system, threat upon counterthreat, only becomes ever more deadly, and there is absolutely no way out except through genuine unilateral initiatives of weakness and vulnerability.

    THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987

  • Today, in a hearing room before (maybe) 50 people and with no "media elite" reporters present, a Congressional subcommittee finally pulled the curtain back on the single most effective counterfinancing measure in this decade, the joint Defense-Treasury counterthreat financing initiative.

    Counterterrorism Blog 2009

  • Today, in a hearing room before (maybe) 50 people and with no "media elite" reporters present, a Congressional subcommittee finally pulled the curtain back on the single most effective counterfinancing measure in this decade, the joint Defense-Treasury counterthreat financing initiative.

    Counterterrorism Blog 2009

  • What Russia is now doing by thumbing its nose at the Obama administration is further demonstrating to America's enemies that this administration has no will to meet a perceived threat with any robust counterthreat.

    theTrumpet.com: Front Page 2009

  • When McColo's connection to the Internet was severed by its upstream providers - in large part because of investigative work done by security researchers such as Joe Stewart, director of SecureWorks's counterthreat unit - spam volumes plunged as botnet controllers couldn't tell hijacked PCs what to do.

    Techworld.com News 2009

  • Michael Yon has posted the new directive, sigend three days ago by Deputy Defense Secretary England, which provides the clearest statement yet of DoD policy and command responsibilities for "counterthreat finance" operations.

    Counterterrorism Blog 2009

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