countermove (n.)

• action
• answer
• artifice
• contrivance
• coup
• demarche
• device
• dodge
• effort
• expedient
• gimmick
• improvisation
• makeshift
• maneuver
• means
• measure
• move
• resort
• resource
• shake-up
• shift
• solution
• step
• stopgap
• stratagem
• stroke
• tactic
• trick
• trump