How to Use counteroffer in a Sentence

counteroffer

noun
  • He turned down the deal and came back with a counteroffer asking for more money.
  • There is no guarantee a counteroffer will emerge in the go-shop process.
    Sara Fischer, Axios, 30 July 2024
  • Once the contracts land on Silver’s desk, WBD will have five days to put together a counteroffer.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 July 2024
  • The village reached out to Agape with a counteroffer in late March.
    Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2021
  • That’s the size of the GOP’s original counteroffer to Biden.
    Sarah Hansen, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • So the companies have about a month to give us a counteroffer.
    ABC News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • His counteroffer was for 4% of the company before the three settled on 5% and made a deal.
    Matthew Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The union rejected the board’s counteroffer and threatened a strike.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The counteroffer was rejected, and the workers prepared for the worst.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The Spurs, though, shot it down without making a counteroffer.
    Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 15 June 2018
  • The challenge for Xerox is to convince HP that a counteroffer makes sense.
    Alex Webb | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
  • But their counteroffer to the President's plan is a sham -- based on three faulty premises.
    Jeffrey Sachs, CNN, 1 June 2021
  • The union expects to make counteroffers to Stellantis and GM soon.
    John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Berlin made counteroffers in an attempt to keep the company in the country.
    Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Among the union's complaints: The counteroffer didn't make any mention of a pension or the union's plea for a shorter workweek.
    Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2024
  • Although Mnuchin had made a counteroffer of $1.6 trillion, the sides have been unable to broker a deal.
    CBS News, 6 Oct. 2020
  • As Saudi airstrikes are one of the only counter measures holding back the Houthi push for Marib, the rebels' counteroffer has been a non-starter so far.
    Nic Robertson, Nada Bashir and Charbel Mallo, CNN, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Russia made a counteroffer that the U.S. did not regard as serious, the White House has said.
    Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2022
  • On Wednesday the union submitted a counteroffer to Ford, the person said.
    Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • One came from LaFayette first, and then Valley proposed a counteroffer.
    al, 14 Dec. 2022
  • With the GOP's nearly $1 trillion counteroffer to Pres.
    Davone Morales, ABC News, 30 May 2021
  • This time, Israel has agreed to send a delegation to go over the Hamas counteroffer.
    Peter Baker, New York Times, 7 May 2024
  • The counteroffer from Ford appears to preserve a five-day workweek.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Now, the original deadline for that counteroffer had come and gone.
    Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
  • The next day, our buyer’s agent sent an email and text message requesting the counteroffer.
    Pat Kapowich, The Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Kalanick never replied to the counteroffer, Cuban added.
    Megan Sauer, CNBC, 18 July 2024
  • With all of this in mind, in 2021, when Castellanos signed with the Phillies and Reds ownership failed to make a counteroffer, fans were left heartbroken.
    Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The president has put a counteroffer on the table that moved by half a trillion dollars.
    ABC News, 30 May 2021
  • Under the terms of its merger agreement with Fox, Disney has the right of refusal on any counteroffer.
    chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2018
  • Buxton rejected the Twins' offer, and the team turned down his agent's counteroffer.
    Christina Long, Star Tribune, 26 July 2021

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