countercommand
verbEtymology From counter- + command.
1
To countermand (a previous command).
2
To countermand (a person or group).
countercommand
nounEtymology From counter- + command.
1
A command that cancels or reverses a previous command; a countermand.
- 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.1933, Collier's Illustrated Weekly, volume 91, page 16: