0 a person who has a very similar job or rank to you but in a different organization
1 a person who has a very similar job or rank to you in a different organization:
The latter, he claimed, was so pervasive that it could not be comprehended apart from a comparison with its opposite number.
For his opposite number will have the knowledge he has, mutatis mutandis, and no more.
He would know he should do his part in the unique optimal outcome if his opposite number does, but he has no basis for inferring that his opposite number will.
A good dialogue naturally requires an opposite number, who can best represent his group as broadly as possible.
I understand that his opposite number had given him an undertaking that no new charges would be preferred.
I also propose to discuss the extension of common inquiry into agricultural research with my opposite number.
It used to be a good way of getting to know one's opposite number.
This amendment would put the country dweller at yet another disadvantage as compared with his opposite number in the town.
