noun, verb
noun (plural tallies) a record of the number or amount of sth, especially one that you can keep adding to:
He hopes to improve on his tally of three goals in the past nine games. * Keep a tally of how much you spend while you're away. * With 85% of the vote counted, unofficial tallies showed Ramos leading his closest rivals.
verb (tallies, tallying, tallied, tallied)
1 [V] ~ (with sth) to be the same as or to match another person's account of sth, another set of figures, etc.
SYNMATCHUP:
Her report of what happened tallied exactly with the story of another witness.
2 [VN] ~ sth (up) to calculate the total number, cost, etc. of sth:
When we tallied up the cost of moving, we decided against it.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for tally is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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