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                              noun ADJ.  direct the difficulty of translating terms with no direct counterpart in the other language | modern the modern counterparts of those medieval writers | female, male Women soldiers will join their male counterparts at the army base. | older, younger | domestic, foreign | rural, urban | northern, southern, etc. | British, French, etc. VERB + COUNTERPART  have British environmentalists have their counterparts in Europe.
                        
                        
 
                        
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