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recount - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To narrate the facts or particulars of: synonym: describe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To count again.
- To relate in detail; recite; tell or narrate the particulars of; rehearse.
- To account; consider.
- Synonyms To narrate, repeat, detail.
- noun A counting anew; a second or repeated count.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A counting again, as of votes.
- transitive verb To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate.
- transitive verb To count or reckon again.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A counting again, as of votes.
- verb To count or reckon again.
- verb To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb narrate or give a detailed account of
- noun an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election
- verb count again
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English recounten, from Old French reconter : re-, re- + conter, relate; see count.]
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Examples
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If you are ahead, finding a way to shut down the recount is a nifty idea.
In every election season, there's a recount. Lessons from Bush and Franken. Jay Weiner 2010
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As for Franken, he won an election, like it or not (assuming the recount is accurate).
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So the outcome of the recount is a foregone conclusion.
Archive 2008-04-01 Not a sheep 2008
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So the outcome of the recount is a foregone conclusion.
Zimbabwe election update Not a sheep 2008
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The 2000 Florida recount is a completely separate issue.
Clinton recalls 2000 Florida recount in push to count votes 2008
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In an election this close -- with less than one-quarter of one percent separating the two candidates, and with literally thousands of vote changes taking place during the post-election canvass process -- a recount is an important protection for voters.
Not Larry Sabato: 2008
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In an election this close -- with less than one-quarter of one percent separating the two candidates, and with literally thousands of vote changes taking place during the post-election canvass process -- a recount is an important protection for voters.
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Actully a recount is a matter of right for a candidate, and a matter of law.
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Actully a recount is a matter of right for a candidate, and a matter of law.
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For the Chief Justice Wells, of the Florida Supreme Court, talked about the imponderable, practical difficulties of any type of what they call a recount or putting these through a manual review and trying to determine the voters 'intent.
Related Words
synonyms (98)
Words with the same meaning
- account
- accounts
- add up
- allegorize
- battologize
- body count
- capitulation
- cast up
- census
- cipher up
- communicate
- compute
- count
- count up
- describe
- detail
- election returns
- enumerate
- fable
- fabulize
- fictionalize
- figure up
- fill
- foot up
- give an encore
- go over
- go through
- head count
- impart
- inventory
- itemize
- iterate
- landslide
- mention
- mythicize
- mythify
- mythologize
- narrate
- nose count
- novelize
- official count
- pad
- particularize
- poll
- practice
- reaffirm
- reassert
- recap
- recapitulate
- recapitulation
- recite
- reckon up
- reckoning
- recounting
- rehash
- rehearsal
- rehearse
- reissue
- reiterate
- relate
- repertory
- report
- reprint
- restate
- resume
- retail
- retell
- returns
- review
- reword
- romance
- run over
- say over
- say over again
- score up
- specify
- state
- statement
- storify
- sum
- sum up
- summarize
- summary
- summate
- summation
- summing
- summing up
- tally up
- tautologize
- tell
- tell a story
- tidal wave
- tot up
- total
- total up
- tote up
- unfold
- unfold a tale
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