retally

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verb

To tally again; to recount.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

verbretally (third-person singular simple present retallies, present participle retallying, simple past and past participle retallied)

present singular third person retallies · participle present retallying · participle past retallied · past retallied

  1. transitiveTo tally again; to recount.

    In 2001 painstaking postmortems of the Florida count, one by The New York Times and another by a consortium of newspapers, concluded that Mr. Bush would have come out slightly ahead, even if all the votes counted throughout the state had been retallied.

    2008 May 23, Alessandra Stanley, “Soothing or Salting Wounds From Election 2000”, in New York Times

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