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re-count

re-count is the alternative form of recount.

Meaning of recount

Noun (1)

recount (plural recounts)

  1. Narration, account, description, rendering.

Noun (2)

recount (plural recounts)

  1. 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.2020 November 11, Veronica Stracqualursi, “Georgia to conduct full by-hand count of presidential race ballots, secretary of state says”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2021

See all 5 meanings of recount

Forms of re-count

Noun
pluralre-counts
Verb
third-person singular presentre-counts
present participlere-counting
past participlere-counted
pastre-counted

Questions about re-count

What is re-count the alternative form of?
Re-count is the alternative form of recount.

Words near re-count in the dictionary

  1. re-constricts
  2. re-construct
  3. re-constructed
  4. re-constructing
  5. re-constructs
  6. re-count
  7. re-cover
  8. re-covered
  9. re-covering
  10. re-coverings
  11. re-covers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: re-count (page history and authors); recount (page history and authors). 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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