What's the difference between countersign and countersignature?
Countersign
Definition:
(v. t.) To sign on the opposite side of (an instrument or writing); hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or superior, in order to attest the authenticity of a writing.
(a.) The signature of a secretary or other officer to a writing signed by a principal or superior, to attest its authenticity.
(a.) A private signal, word, or phrase, which must be given in order to pass a sentry; a watchword.
Example Sentences:
(1) The applicant I had countersigned for had visited a GP surgery where she began talking to another patient who was there for a GP's signature on an application, for a fee of £20.
(2) The content of the explanation should be written and countersigned by the patient.
(3) Clearly in most cases the doctor does no more than countersign the patient's declaration of his fitness or not to work.
(4) My application was reviewed and countersigned by the HMRC chief executive.” He adds it was “HMRC’s chairman who took an interest in the work of the Enforcement and Compliance directorate.
(5) Jane Duffield-Bish Norwich • Fifteen years ago, as a police constable, I countersigned a passport application for a resident.
(6) I signed it; the cardinal camerlengo [chamberlain] countersigned it; and then, on the balcony, there was the Habemus Papam [announcement of a new pope].
(7) The seven passenger manifests, countersigned by travel agents in Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria , suggest there was a period of formalised passage on the Syrian side of the border.
(8) Speakers from the Islah party, members of which countersigned the deal in Riyadh on Wednesday, were forced to flee for cover in Change Square after a group of youth activists launched a co-ordinated attack on the main stage, pelting it with stones, eggs and plastic bottles and shouting: "Our stage, our revolution, down with the opposition!"
(9) Misinterpretations were identified by staff radiologists, who checked all examinations and countersigned the reports.