• Celebrity voted to accept the RCI bid, despite a counter-offer of $525 million from Carnival Corp.
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Shares rose by 10.5p as speculation mounted of a counter-offer.
»The state's power providers made a counter-offer of $700 million.
Negotiations broke down after a demand for $12 million was met with a counteroffer of $8 million.
When they realized that he was about to quit, they made a counter-offer, which he politely rejected.
When a person makes a counteroffer, he or she is rejecting the previous offer and rendering it void. Because the original offer is now void, the person who made that offer is no longer legally responsible for honoring it. For example, let's say you are selling a vehicle. A buyer arrives and offers you $10,000 for the car. In an attempt to get a higher price, you counteroffer, asking for $11,000. If the buyer declines, you cannot force them to buy the car at $10,000, even though they have already offered at that price.
контрпредложение, ответное предложение
зустрічна пропозиція
• An offer made by someone who has rejected a prior offer