transcription, транскрипция: [ kaʊntə(r)veɪlɪŋ ]
A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it. ( FORMAL )
Their strategy is expansionist and imperialist, and it is greatest in effect, of course, when there is no countervailing power...
ADJ : ADJ n