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counter-statement
noun[ C ]
(alsocounterstatement)uk /ˈkaʊn.təˌsteɪt.mənt/ us /ˈkaʊn.t̬ɚˌsteɪt.mənt/
a statement that is made in reply to a previous statement, saying that it is not true or giving a different opinion:
He issued a counter-statement, claiming that he had been attacked without provocation.
Newspapers are obliged to publish counterstatements from people who claim to have been misrepresented.
Union leaders issued a counter-statement making it clear that the strike did not have their approval.
I was not at all satisfied with this counter-statement.
The work can be read as a counterstatement to contemporary ideas about women's capabilities.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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acquaint someone/yourself with something
annunciation
apprise someone of something
avowedly
awaken someone to something
bear
break
impart
pass
proclaim
propagate
propagative
public
put something before someone
put something out
put something out of its miseryidiom
reported
ring
smoke signal
stake a claimidiom
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