countercommand

noun

Etymology

From counter- + command.

  1. derived from commendo
  2. derived from commando
  3. derived from comander
  4. inherited from commanden
  5. prefixed as countercommand — “counter + command

Definitions

  1. A command that cancels or reverses a previous command

    A command that cancels or reverses a previous command; a countermand.

    • 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.
  2. To countermand (a previous command).

  3. To countermand (a person or group).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for countercommand. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA