Recount

//ɹɪˈkaʊnt// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Narration, account, description, rendering
  2. 2
    A counting again, as of votes.

    "The Georgia Republican Party and US Rep. Doug Collins, a Georgia Republican who’s leading the Trump campaign’s recount efforts in the state, on Tuesday requested a pre-certification “manual hand recount of every ballot cast within the State of Georgia” for president."

  3. 3
    an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To tell; narrate; to relate in detail.

    "The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish."

  2. 2
    To count again.

    "Georgia’s secretary of state announced Wednesday that the state will conduct an audit of the 2020 presidential race, recounting by hand the millions of ballots cast in the state, where President-elect Joe Biden is leading."

  3. 3
    count again wordnet
  4. 4
    To rehearse; to enumerate. dated

    "to recount one's blessings"

  5. 5
    narrate or give a detailed account of wordnet

Synonyms

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Example

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"Here he began to recount his misfortune in detail."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old Northern French and Anglo-Norman recunter, variant of Old French reconter.

Etymology 2

From re- + count.

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