| bargain counter |
a counter in a store that is stocked with items to be sold at reduced prices. |
| bean counter |
a person working in government or business who is excessively concerned with saving money or increasing profits, often not seeing how certain expenditures could be of benefit to the government or business in either the short term or the long term. |
| counter check |
a check available at a bank to customers with accounts, for making withdrawals. |
| Counter Reformation |
an aggressive campaign by the Roman Catholic Church in the sixteenth century that was aimed at countering the effects in Europe of the Protestant Reformation. |
| counter word |
(chiefly American) a commonly used word whose current meanings have little relationship to its original meaning, such as "nice" or "terrible". |
| Geiger counter |
an instrument that detects radiation by means of a gas that ionizes when in the presence of radioactive emanations, and that also measures it by a device that counts the electrical pulses emitted by the ionized gas. |
| over the counter |
from or by a stockbroker as opposed to the stock exchange. |
| over-the-counter |
of drugs or medication, legally available for purchase without a prescription. [2 definitions] |
| under the counter |
secretively, esp. in order to evade the law. |
| under-the-counter |
secret or illegal, as sales or payments; under-the-table. |