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n. - A plot intended to subvert another plot.

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  • After a long period of normal progress, Jefri had come back with a counterplan.
  • I obeyed, because I had no counterplan, and I had come, during our association, to give credit to Eet.
  • The British counterplan, Operation COLD WATER, went into effect: Thirty airplanes took off for Berlin.
  • When he determined the strength of the plot against his life and that of his partner Dominic Goldoni, he developed a counterplan.
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