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opposite number

opposite number noun: a person who holds a position in an organization, sports team, or the like, that corresponds to that held by another person in another organization; a counterpart.

Noun

opposite number (plural opposite numbers)

  1. (idiomatic) A person who holds a position in an organization, sports team, or the like, that corresponds to that held by another person in another organization; a counterpart.
    • The first up train was the morning semi-fast ex Buncrana, which sped through with No. 8 at its head, adroitly exchanging staffs at about 15 m.p.h. […] The next train through Tooban was our opposite number, and we duly received the vital staff.1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 355
    • Except for the mid-winter period, when the 11.30 a.m. from Paddington and its opposite number will be withdrawn - Torquay now has seven daily expresses to and from Paddington as compared with five down and six up previously.1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 590

opposite number meaning in Bengali and Arabic

opposite number in Bengali

একজন সমকক্ষ

opposite number in Arabic

counterpart
نَظِير naẓīr, نَظِيرَة naẓīra

Forms of opposite number

pluralopposite numbers

Questions about opposite number

What does opposite number mean?
Opposite number means a person who holds a position in an organization, sports team, or the like, that corresponds to that held by another person in another organization; a counterpart.
What is opposite number in Bengali?
Opposite number in Bengali is একজন সমকক্ষ. See Opposite number meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is opposite number?
Opposite number is a noun.
What is the plural of opposite number?
The plural of opposite number is opposite numbers.

Words near opposite number in the dictionary

  1. opposit
  2. opposite
  3. opposite angle
  4. opposite angles
  5. Opposite Day
  6. opposite number
  7. opposite numbers
  8. opposite sex
  9. opposite side
  10. opposite sides
  11. opposited

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Adapted from Wiktionary: opposite number (page history and authors); opposite number (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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