countervailing

Examples

• All

• All this, of course, by no means ensures that Tunisia's democratizing experiment will succeed, for there are any number of countervailing factors and likely obstacles ahead.

  Academic text (2011)

• Tocqueville believed that in aristocratic times there were always countervailing centers of power.

• What, what is the countervailing message to that that you would want to say?

  The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

• First of all, the United States has many more countervailing cases than Canada does.

  Academic text (1997)

• In other words, there are a bunch of countervailing factors that would need to be considered.

  Blog text (18)

• There are always countervailing considerations that shape the form and direction of policy outcomes.

  Academic text (1994)

• I think that the rise of online shopping is a tremendously strong countervailing force.

  Blog text (18)

• Since 1992, the negotiating parties have tried to act as a countervailing force to the powerful trends pulling apart South African society.

  Academic text (1993)

• In this economic and political context, the shape of the social dimension for EC 1992 is obvious, but there were countervailing political factors that constrained such EC-wide proposals.

  Academic text (1990)

• In negotiations, the unions provided a countervailing force to balance the power of the management.

Synonyms

C

counteractive

vscountervailing

1 7.0

Acting against something to reduce its effect

applies an equal opposing force to balance rather than just reduce

C

counterpoised

vscountervailing

1 7.9

Kept balanced by an equal force on the opposite side

acts using equal force to offset another effect

Compounds

C

countervailing duty

• Formal

1 8.6

A tax on imported goods to reduce unfair government help to foreign companies

How Balancing

overcompensatory

1 8.7

countervailing

• Formal

5 7.0

to offset

96 4.4

neutralization

2 6.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology