Usually means: Order or directive revoked or reversed.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. countermanded: Merriam-Webster
  2. countermanded: Collins English Dictionary
  3. countermanded: Vocabulary.com
  4. countermanded: Wordnik
  5. countermanded: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. countermanded: Wiktionary
  7. Countermanded, countermanded: Dictionary.com
  8. Countermanded: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Countermanded: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. countermanded: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. countermanded: FreeDictionary.org
  12. countermanded: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. countermanded: Legal dictionary

(Note: See countermand as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (countermand)

verb:  To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
verb:  To recall a person or unit with such an order.
verb:  To cancel an order for (some specified goods).
verb:  (figuratively) To counteract, to act against, to frustrate.
verb:  (obsolete) To prohibit (a course of action or behavior).
verb:  (obsolete) To oppose or revoke the command of (someone).
verb:  (obsolete) To maintain control of, to keep under command.
noun:  An order to the contrary of a previous one.
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