Usually means: Secret signal confirming identity, authorization.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word countersign:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. countersign: Merriam-Webster
  2. countersign: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. countersign: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. countersign: Collins English Dictionary
  5. countersign: Vocabulary.com
  6. countersign: Wordnik
  7. countersign: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. countersign: Wiktionary
  9. countersign: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. countersign: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. countersign: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. countersign: Dictionary.com
  13. Countersign (legal), Countersign (military), Countersign: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Countersign: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. countersign: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. countersign: Rhymezone
  17. Countersign: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. countersign: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. countersign: FreeDictionary.org
  20. countersign: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. countersign: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. countersign: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. countersign: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. countersign: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. countersign: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. countersign: Encyclopedia

(Note: See countersignature as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (law) A second signature added to a document to affirm the validity of the signature of the first person.
noun:  The response to a sign or signal.
verb:  (transitive) To sign on the opposite side of (a document).
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To add a second signature to a document, affirming the validity of the signature of another person.

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