{
    "term": "counterpart",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person or thing that has the same position or function as somebody/something else in a different place or situation",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The Foreign Minister held talks with his Chinese counterpart."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The women's shoe, like its male counterpart, is specifically designed for the serious tennis player."
                },
                {
                    "text": "European environmentalists have their counterparts in the US."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The actress who played the Queen looked uncannily like her real-life counterpart."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Women soldiers will join their male counterparts at the army base."
                },
                {
                    "text": "corporations that trade with their counterparts in other countries"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the difficulty of translating terms with no direct counterpart in the other language"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the modern counterparts of those medieval writers"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["direct", "modern", "female"],
                "verb + counterpart": ["have"],
                "preposition": ["counterpart in"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkaʊntəpɑːt/",
                "audio": "co/counterpart/counterpart__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkaʊntərpɑːrt/",
                "audio": "co/counterpart/counterpart__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}