A demand made in response to or opposition against another demand; a counter-claim or reciprocal demand.
From counter- (against, in response) + demand (a claim or requirement). Demand comes from Latin demandare. The compound typically appears in legal, business, or diplomatic contexts where one party responds to demands with their own opposing demands.
In labor disputes, when management makes demands, workers make counterdemands—and negotiation is essentially the back-and-forth of demands and counterdemands until both sides meet somewhere in the middle.
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