count out

present singular third person counts out · participle present counting out · participle past counted out · past counted out

1. transitiveTo exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility.

   I may not be as young as I used to be, but I can still handle this job. Don't count me out.

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   They counted it out for these purposes because their accounting method handles it in another way.

2. transitiveTo enumerate items while organizing or transferring them.

   The bank teller counted out five twenty-dollar bills and gave them to me.

3. transitiveboxingTo determine that a competitor has lost a match, by a referee's enumeration aloud of the increments of time for which the competitor has been incapacitated.

   The champ was knocked unconscious and counted out in the third round.

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   Dan stood over the fallen parson, and started to count him out.

   1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 25

4. transitiveTo declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present.
5. transitiveTo prevent the accession of (a legitimately elected person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes.