Usually means: Opposing argument in a dispute.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word counterclaim:

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

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. counterclaim: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. counterclaim: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. counterclaim: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Counterclaim: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  9. COUNTERCLAIM: Accounting Glossary
  10. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  11. counterclaim: Legal dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. counterclaim: Medical dictionary

(Note: See counterclaimed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (law) A suit filed by a defendant against a plaintiff secondary to the original complaint.
verb:  (intransitive) To file a counterclaim.

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