Noun: counterpower
| Singular | counterpower |
| Plural | counterpowers |
Sample Sentences
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In the hands of the few power can be called oppression, repression, exploitation or authoritarianism. Meanwhile movements for freedom, emancipation, liberation, human rights and democracy have a common idea at their heart. That idea is Counterpower. [2011, Tim Gee, Counterpower, page 17:]
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A fifth step must be taken if the project of empire is to be defeated — namely, the emergence of effective counterpowers within the world community, able to balance the superpower of the United States... [2005, Christian Barry, Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge, Global institutions and responsibilities: achieving global justice, page 182:]
Nouns inflected like counterpower
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From counter- + power.
Verbs referencing "counterpower"
Polish Nouns
przeciwsiła.