countercommand

From counter- +‎ command .

countercommand (plural countercommands )

1. A command that cancels or reverses a previous command; a countermand.
   • 1933, Collier's Illustrated Weekly, volume 91, page 16:

     Someone else had given a countercommand — the Spanish soldiers were in riotous retreat! Don Carlos was engulfed by the screaming swirl of the Moorish horsemen.

countercommand (third-person singular simple present countercommands , present participle countercommanding , simple past and past participle countercommanded )

1. (transitive ) To countermand (a previous command).
2. (transitive ) To countermand (a person or group).

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