countersign
verb [ I or T ] uk/ˈkaʊn.tə.saɪn/ us/ˈkaʊn.t̬ɚ.saɪn/
副署,会签(文件)
to write your name on a document that already has the signature (= name written) of another person, especially in order to show that you are certain that the first person is who they say they are
I'm not prepared to countersign this report as it stands.
The application must be countersigned by a doctor or a suitably qualified nurse.
- More examples
- The company introduced the travellers cheque, which had no value until it was countersigned.
- The midwife produced a form of refusal of consent to blood transfusions which Miss T. signed and the midwife countersigned.
- Internal auditors will have to countersign a copy of form BSD( 2).
- With this account, a seventeen-year-old does not require an adult to countersign on any of their transactions.