countervail
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Anglo-Norman countrevaloir ( = Old French contrevaloir), from Latin contrā valēre (“to be worth against”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
countervail (third-person singular simple present countervails, present participle countervailing, simple past and past participle countervailed)
- (obsolete) To have the same value as.
- To counteract, counterbalance or neutralize.
- To compensate for.
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1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, printed at London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821:, I.38:
- I am one of those who thinke their fruit can no way countervaile this losse.
- L'Estrange
- Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences that go along with it.
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Translations[edit]
to counteract, counterbalance or neutralize
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to compensate for
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