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Definition of Counterplan
1. Noun. A plot intended to subvert another plot.
Definition of Counterplan
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterplan
Literary usage of Counterplan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)
"To give time for a counterplan, the Marquis de Lafayette, the valuable friend
and citizen of this, as well as that country, wrote to a gentleman in Boston, ..."
2. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)
"To give time for a counterplan, the Marquis de Lafayette, the valuable friend
and citizen of this, as well as that country, wrote to a gentleman in Boston, ..."
3. History of the United States of America Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1908)
"He would not only unfold a plan of his own so as to present the strongest arguments
for its adoption, but anticipate every objection and counterplan which ..."
4. The Ratification of the Federal Constitution by the State of New York by Clarence Eugene Miner (1921)
"... gift not only of presenting his own case in its strongest possible aspect,
but of anticipating every objection and counterplan of his opponents. ..."
5. An American History by David Saville Muzzey (1911)
"... entirely in a national legislature elected in proportion to the population,
supported a counterplan introduced by Governor Paterson of New Jersey. ..."
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