Dictionary Definition
recount n : an additional (usually a second)
count; especially of the votes in a close election
Verb
1 narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell
what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" [syn:
tell, narrate, recite]
2 count again; "We had to recount all the votes
after an accusation of fraud was made"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aʊnt
Noun
- A counting again, as of votes.
Translations
- Finnish: tarkistuslaskenta
- Portuguese: recontagem
Verb
- To count or reckon again.
- To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings.
Translations
to count again
- Portuguese: recontar
to tell over
Extensive Definition
An election recount takes place in the event that
the initial vote tally during an election is extremely close,
and that therefore a recount of the ballots is necessary to ensure
an accurate result.
Notable recounts
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
account, accounts, add up, allegorize, battologize, body count,
capitulation, cast
up, census, cipher up,
communicate,
count, count up, describe, detail, election returns,
enumerate, fable, fabulize, fictionalize, figure up,
fill, foot up, give an
encore, go over, go through, head count, impart, inventory, itemize, iterate, landslide, mythicize, mythify, mythologize, narrate, nose count, novelize, official count,
pad, particularize, poll, practice, reaffirm, reassert, recap, recapitulate, recapitulation, recite, reckon up, reckoning, recounting, rehash, rehearsal, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, relate, repertory, report, reprint, restate, resume, retail, retell, returns, review, reword, romance, run over, say over, say
over again, score up, specify, state, statement, storify, sum, sum up, summarize, summary, summate, summation, summing, summing up, tally up,
tautologize,
tell, tell a story, tidal
wave, tot up, total, total
up, tote up, unfold,
unfold a tale