Sentence examples for counter meaning from inspiring English sources

Central bankers worry that those sold "over the counter", meaning outside exchanges, threaten the stability of the whole financial system.

A novel feature of this chip is its double buffered counter, meaning a next frame can be acquired while the previous one is being readout.

The vast majority of derivatives are traded over the counter, meaning they're essentially traded in the shadows between firms without government oversight or regulation.

"I know how to clean it," he countered, meaning the shirt.

For the first two years, the company fully staffed its human checkout counters, meaning the automated checkout kiosks were primarily the domain of shoppers with just a few items or those looking to avoid long lines.

But I keep thinking about it as a countereffect, a counter-meaning, in which Obreht raises the stakes by suggesting that not all stories are meant to be told.

Most are sold "over the counter" (OTC), meaning by direct agreement between the two parties rather than through an exchange.

Instead there is the conviction that the photographer, in the words of art critic Peter Schjeldahl, "had a Geiger counter for meaning, whose meter happened to go crazy at this location".

The following year the US Food and Drug Administration also approved the over-the-counter product, meaning it had got through the two toughest regulatory regimes in the world.

The initial rate on over-the-counter transactions (meaning those negotiated directly between buyer and seller, rather than via an exchange of some sort) was significantly higher, at 0.22%.

The temptation is the huge prices that (illegal) ambelopoulia now fetch in certain restaurants – people are prepared to pay as much as €80 (£61) for a plate of under-the-counter warblers, meaning bird-trappers can earn €50,000 a year.