countercheck
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Comptroller General McCarl has not had authority to check and countercheck the expenditure of Federal emergency appropriations, nor has Budget Director Douglas had power to plan their spending.
From Time Magazine Archive
To have his keys to count and countercheck.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Ne'er shall she come within our palace gate, To countercheck brave Locrine in his love.
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
He is forbidden, in fact, to be himself a good citizen; forbidden to be anything more than the colourless instrument of a system of compromise and countercheck.
From Irish Books and Irish People by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
We are, indeed, very fond of range, and if there is check, there should be countercheck; and in this view we are delighted to see these great Italians domesticated here.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
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