countersign in English

noun

1

a signal or password given in reply to a soldier on guard.

If two soldiers have the day's password and countersign , they can get physically close enough to kill each other without knowing that their uniforms don't match or their language isn't even the same.

verb

1

add a signature to (a document already signed by another person).

each check had to be signed and countersigned

noun

• countersignature
• watchword, password, word, parole

Use "countersign" in a sentence

1. What does Countersigned mean? Simple past tense and past participle of countersign

2. Hypernyms ("Countersignature" is a kind of): signature (your name written in your own handwriting) Derivation: countersign …

3. There is a further requirement for the Minister of Justice to countersign each transfer of administration.

4. Illegal element uses partial user covet to go to the lavatory the flaw that installs weak countersign, to the bank card password undertakes defeating solving.

5. The Rights Certificates will be Countersigned, either manually or by facsimile signature, by an authorized signatory of the Rights Agent, but it will not be necessary for the same signatory to countersign all of the Rights Certificates

6. To countersign is to sign on the opposite side of an instrument already signed by some other person or officer, in order to secure its character of a genuine paper; as a bank note is signed by the president and Countersigned by the cashier

7. (c) Signature or Countersignature by resident insurance producer not required; exception.- (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law of this State or of policy forms, and subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, an insurance producer that is a resident of this State may not be required to sign or countersign a policy covering a subject