retally

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English

Etymology

From re- +‎ tally.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To tally again; to recount.
    • 2008 May 23, Alessandra Stanley, “Soothing or Salting Wounds From Election 2000”, in New York Times:
      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.

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