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to countersign
noun
A second signature added to a document to affirm the validity of the signature of the first person
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Its accountant, a Kenyan, was held hostage while he was told to countersign cheques.
After years of relying on Brooke doctors to countersign cremation forms, Dr. Shipman never returned to them.
Still, while he is no longer an officer of Americans for Job Security, Mr. Dubke remains a consultant and has authority to countersign its checks.
Mrs. Bambroffe asked why the doctor was there; Dr. Booth replied that she needed to countersign a cremation form for Dr. Shipman.
"I am lucky if I get an hour a day dealing with art," Dr. Sutton said, after a quick break between meetings to countersign a batch of checks, return phone calls and answer e-mail messages.
It was early January, and, with the move-out date only a few weeks away, Arwen had suddenly made Rimkus a new, ambiguous offer: it had invited her to sign a one-year extension, no strings attached, but without guaranteeing that anybody from the company would be willing to countersign.
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The king's decrees had to be countersigned by ministers responsible to the Sejm, which was partly elected on the basis of property qualifications.
If you get it (which you may after a time) the memorial must be entered in that department, sent out to be registered in this department, sent back to be countersigned in that department and then it will be regularly before this department.
"Marriages have to be countersigned by the court.
Except in urgent cases, similar operations by the police and HM Revenue and Customs have to be countersigned by a judge acting as a Surveillance Commissioner.
In addition, it is now considered good practice for each published article to be countersigned by a 'guarantor' for the entire study.
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