counterparts
Corresponding people elsewhere
Counterparts are people or things that correspond to or complement each other in different contexts.
A CEO meets with her counterpart at another company—someone holding the same position elsewhere.
The American president and the British prime minister are counterparts.
Documents may be signed in counterparts, meaning separate copies that together form one agreement.
The treaty was executed in counterparts by officials in both capitals.
Comparable equivalent
- parallelEquidistant at all points
- twinOne of matched pair
- matchGame between opponents
- correspondentJournalist covering distant events
analogue · homologue · opposite number · vis-à-vis · coequal · commensurate · tantamount · interchangeable
Game between opponents
- pairingJoining two together
- other halfInformal term for spouse
- partnerOne who shares activity
- completionAct of finishing
balance · foil · pendant · mate · correlate · supplement · obverse · flip side
analog
Comparable equivalent
correspondent · analogue · homologue · opposite number · vis-à-vis · coequal · commensurate · tantamount · interchangeable · cognate
match
Game between opponents
- pairingJoining two together
- other halfInformal term for spouse
- partnerOne who shares activity
completion · balance · foil · pendant · mate · correlate · supplement · obverse · flip side · yin and yang
colleague
Professional associate
collaborator · coworker · teammate · fellow · comrade · confederate · cohort · companion · mate · confrere
- Comparison Termssimilarities, differences, comparisons, contrasts, pros
- social tiesfriends, pals, buddies, mates, companions
- contractsbinding contracts, contract length, lease, clause, contract terms
- contract clausesseverability clause, termination clause, confidentiality clause, force majeure, dispute resolution
- partnerspartners, partner, business partners, business partner, associates
counterpartsopposites
Terms with contrary meanings
antitheses · contrasts · polar opposites · inverses · adversaries
counterpartsstrangers
People unknown to you
independents · mismatches · incomparables · outliers · anomalies
counterpartsoriginals
Authentic first versions
prototypes · sources · archetypes · templates · duplicates