countersign

1. 1.

   add one's signature to after another's to attest authenticity

   “You must countersign on this line of the contract”

   Broadersign

Other forms of countersign

plural

countersigns·

past tense

countersigned·

present participle

countersigning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about countersign

What does countersign mean?

countersign means "a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in countersign?

countersign has 3 syllables: coun-ter-sign. The stress falls on "coun".

What is another word for countersign?

Close synonyms include password, watchword, word, parole, countersignature. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is countersign a common word?

countersign is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.