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retally

retally verb: to tally again; to recount.

Verb

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

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

Forms of retally

third-person singular presentretallies
present participleretallying
past participleretallied
pastretallied

Origin of retally

From re- + tally.

Questions about retally

What does retally mean?
Retally means to tally again; to recount.
What part of speech is retally?
Retally is a verb.
What is the past tense of retally?
The past tense of retally is retallied.

Words near retally in the dictionary

  1. retalked
  2. retalking
  3. retalks
  4. retallied
  5. retallies
  6. retally
  7. retallying
  8. retama
  9. retamas
  10. retame
  11. retamed

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