How to Use counteroffer in a Sentence
counteroffer
noun- He turned down the deal and came back with a counteroffer asking for more money.
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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 -
Blinken, who was asked whether the Russians have made a counteroffer for the release of Whelan and Gershkovich, declined to say more about the case on Wednesday.
— William Mauldin, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2023 -
Each party has one chance for a counteroffer, to avoid the back-and-forth bargaining found on competing sites.
— Wendy Fawthrop, Orange County Register, 30 May 2017
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