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count on

/kaʊntʌn/US/kaʊnʌn/

count on verb: to rely on, trust, or expect.

Verb

count on (third-person singular simple present counts on, present participle counting on, simple past and past participle counted on)

  1. (transitive) To rely on, trust, or expect.
    • Don't count on being able to get back into the building after 5pm.
    • Can we count on you to help out?

count on meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Sanskrit and Vietnamese

count on in Tamil

to rely on, trust, or expect
நம்பு nampu

count on in Malayalam

depend on, rely on, bank on
കണക്കിലെടുക്കുക, വിശ്വസിക്കുക, നമ്പുക, ആശ്രയിക്കുക, ഉപാശ്രയിക്കുക, അവലംബിക്കുക
expect, reckon on, anticipate
കണക്കിലെടുക്കുക, പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുക, അടിസ്ഥാനമാക്കി പദ്ധതിയിടുക, കണക്കുകൂട്ടുക, പ്രത്യാശിക്കുക, കാക്കുക

count on in Sanskrit

to rely on, trust, or expect
विश्वसति viśvasati, सम्प्रतितिष्ठति sampratitiṣṭhati

count on in Vietnamese

to rely on, trust, or expect
trông đợi

Examples of count on in a sentence

  • The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.1999, Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor:
  • Or perhaps something unusual occurred in the current period that you can't count on to repeat itself.2001, Builder's Guide to Accounting:
  • "Hopefully you can count on them for a long period of time.2009, “Going green: Young talent cuts costs, builds continuity”, in USA Today:

Synonyms of count on

Forms of count on

third-person singular presentcounts on
present participlecounting on
past participlecounted on
pastcounted on

Questions about count on

What does count on mean?
Count on means to rely on, trust, or expect.
What is count on in Tamil?
Count on in Tamil is நம்பு (nampu). See Count on meaning in Tamil.
How do you use count on in a sentence?
The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
What part of speech is count on?
Count on is a verb.
How do you pronounce count on?
Count on is pronounced /kaʊntʌn/.
What is the past tense of count on?
The past tense of count on is counted on.

Words near count on in the dictionary

  1. count in
  2. count noses
  3. count noun
  4. count nouns
  5. count off
  6. count on
  7. count on one hand
  8. count on the fingers of one hand
  9. count one's blessings
  10. count one's chickens
  11. count one's days

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: count on (page history and authors); count on (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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