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COUNTERFOIL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does counterfoil mean?
• COUNTERFOIL (noun)
The noun COUNTERFOIL has 1 sense:
1. the part of a check that is retained as a record
Familiarity information: COUNTERFOIL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The part of a check that is retained as a record
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
check stub; counterfoil; stub
Hypernyms ("counterfoil" is a kind of...):
record (anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events)
Context examples
But I daresay it may have come to your notice that, counterfoil of another man’s message, there may be some disinclination on the part of the officials to oblige you.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have wired to Overton to let us know any fresh London developments at this address, and in the meantime we can only concentrate our attention upon Dr. Armstrong, whose name the obliging young lady at the office allowed me to read upon the counterfoil of Staunton’s urgent message.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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