counterplan
- n a plot intended to subvert another plot
- Naguib's counterplan: a stiff electoral reform law, excluding men of "known dishonesty" from political office.
- The Arabs proposed a counterplan which represented a high-water mark in their willingness to compromise: a "democratic" Palestine in which the Jews would have "constitutional .
- But against this proposal is the French counterplan for a Danubian Federation of Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Jugoslavia and Bulgaria.