Countersign (Verb)
Meaning
Add one's signature to after another's to attest authenticity; "You must countersign on this line of the contract".
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The company's policy requires a manager to countersign every purchase order over $1,000.
- The government official countersigned the documents after verifying the signatures of the other parties.
- You must countersign on this line of the contract to acknowledge that you have read and understood its terms.
- The CEO countersigned the checks before they were mailed to the suppliers.
- To ensure authenticity, the employee had to countersign the paperwork after the supervisor had signed it.