Meaning of count out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility.
   transitive
2. To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them.
   transitive
3. 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.
   transitive
4. To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present.
   transitive
5. To prevent the accession of (a legitimately elected person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes.
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“The bank teller counted out five twenty-dollar bills and gave them to me.”

“The champ was knocked unconscious and counted out in the third round.”

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