countercheck
Example Sentences
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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
That word fell on his ear for the first time from a white man's lips, and the stupefaction of it was a countercheck to his grief.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
Every check and countercheck is used, which slowness of proceeding, or a repetition of it in other stages and under different forms, can effect.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
Therefore, as I leave you some fading pelf to countercheck poverty, so I will bequeath you infallible precepts that shall lead you unto virtue.
From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Edward Chauncey Baldwin
