Usually means: Response to oppose or neutralize something.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word counteraction:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. counteraction: Merriam-Webster
  2. counteraction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. counteraction: Collins English Dictionary
  4. counteraction: Vocabulary.com
  5. counteraction: Wordnik
  6. counteraction: Wiktionary
  7. Counteraction, counteraction: Dictionary.com
  8. Counteraction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. counteraction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. counteraction: Rhymezone
  11. Counteraction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. counteraction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. COUNTERACTION: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  14. counteraction: FreeDictionary.org
  15. counteraction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Counteraction: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. counteraction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. counteraction: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. counteraction: Medical dictionary

(Note: See counteract as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (counteraction)

noun:  An act of retaliation; a counterattack.
noun:  Any action in opposition to a previous action.

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