countercommand

countercommand

English

Etymology

counter- +‎ command

Noun

countercommand (plural countercommands)

1. A command that cancels or reverses a previous command; a countermand.
   • 1933, Collier's Illustrated Weekly (volume 91, page 16)

     Someone else had given a countercommand — the Spanish soldiers were in riotous retreat! Don Carlos was engulfed by the screaming swirl of the Moorish horsemen.

Verb

countercommand (third-person singular simple present countercommands, present participle countercommanding, simple past and past participle countercommanded)

1. (transitive) To countermand (a previous command).
2. (transitive) To countermand (a person or group).