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单词 counterpower
释义

counterpower

noun

coun·​ter·​pow·​er ˈkau̇n-tər-ˌpau̇(-ə)r How to pronounce counterpower (audio)
variants or counter-power
plural counterpowers or counter-powers
: a power that offsets or checks an opposing power
So they gave the counterpower of the veto to the president so he could keep the Congress under control. Eugene McCarthy
The idea is that against power over people, we must exert a counterpower over the oppressors. Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer
It remains to be shown how, in a country claiming to be a democracy, a veritable hidden counter-power operating outside institutional controls … could have grown up at the very center of the state. Patrice Claude

Word History

First Known Use

1846, in the meaning defined above

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