count out

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To 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.
   • They counted it out for these purposes because their accounting method handles it in another way.
2. (transitive) To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them.
   • The bank teller counted out five twenty-dollar bills and gave them to me.
3. (transitive) To 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.
   • 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. (transitive) To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present.
5. (transitive) To prevent the accession of (a legitimately elected person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes.