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1. A project, scheme, or proposal brought forward in opposition to another, as in the negotiation of a treaty.
   "Yet little did Tolstoi realize in the spring of 1888 that even more serious challenges lay ahead in the fall, when his opponents, capitalizing on Alexander IIl's detachment from the reform process, would rally together to present a counterproject."

Derived forms: counterprojects

Type of: scheme, strategy