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Because the person across the counter is the person who raised the crops themselves, they can not only tell the buyers how they were grown and when they were harvested, but also how they can best be prepared to eat.

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  1. adjective Contrary; opposing: moves and counter moves on the checkerboard.
  2. noun One that is an opposite.
  3. noun Sports A boxing blow given while receiving or parrying another.
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  1. Middle English countre, from Old French contre, from Latin contrā; see counter-.
  2. Middle English countour, from Anglo-Norman counteour, from Medieval Latin computātōrium, countinghouse, from Latin computāre, to calculate; see count1.

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  1. from Middle English countere, cowntere, countour, a counter, treasurer, also a coin, from Old French conteor, conteur, countour, a counter, computer, also an advocate, later spelled compteur, modern F. compteur, meter, indicator (cf. French computateur, computer), = Spanish Portuguese contador = Italian contatore, from Latin computator, one who computes, from computare, past participle computatus, compute, count: see count, v., and cf. computator. Counter is now regarded as count + -er.
  2. Early modern English also counture, from Middle English countour, cowntwre, from Old French contoir, later comptoir, the counting-room, -table, or -bench of a merchant or banker, modern F. comptoir, a shop-counter, bar, bank, from Middle Latin computatorium, a counting-room or -bench, from Latin computare, past participle computatus, count, compute: see count, compute. Cf. counter.
  3. Not in Middle English except as a prefix (see counter-); from French contre, against, from Latin contra, against: see contra, contra-.
  4. from counter-. prefix, or counter, adv.: being the prefix or adverb used separately as an adjective.
  5. Middle English counter, from Old French contre, against: see counter, adv.
  6. from counter, a., and counter-, prefix.
  7. from counter, adv. and n.
  8. from Middle English counturen, countren, coutren, encounter; by apheresis for encounter, q. v.
  9. By apheresis for encounter.
 

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