verb
- to act against with equal power or effect; to counteract or offset
Usage: formal
Examples
- The benefits of the new policy countervail its costs.
- Her enthusiasm countervailed his pessimism during the project.
- The company’s losses in one division were countervailed by gains in another.
- Nothing could countervail the damage done by the scandal.
- The medicine’s side effects countervail some of its therapeutic benefits.
- His experience countervails his lack of formal education.