Timeline for The term 'counterpart' is used to avoid repeating a phrase
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| Aug 12, 2023 at 6:26 | vote | accept | my goddess Zendaya | ||
| Aug 9, 2023 at 10:11 | comment | added | Stuart F | I think counterparts is normally used of people or organisations rather than objects, and particularly with well-defined groups like men vs women. Looking at the COCA corpora suggests most examples - maybe 75% - are human, but it's sometimes used otherwise in technical contexts (e.g. cellphones from 2 different manufacturers). | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 19:48 | comment | added | Graffito | An example of such use would be "the minister of health spoke with her American counterpart". However, the choice of counterpart in a sentence related to investors could be misleading (counterpart vs counterparty) because a counterparty is the other party that participates in a financial transaction. Every transaction must have a counterparty in order for the transaction to go through. Every buyer must be paired up with a seller who is willing to sell and vice versa. Source | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 17:47 | history | answered | Friendly Racoon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |