recount

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   count again

   We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made

2. 2
   verb

   To tell; narrate; to relate in detail.

   The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.

3. 3
   verb

   To rehearse; to enumerate.

   to recount one's blessings

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   verb

   To count again.

   Georgia’s secretary of state announced Wednesday that the state will conduct an audit of the 2020 presidential race, recounting by hand the millions of ballots cast in the state, where President-elect Joe Biden is leading.

6. 6
   noun

   an additional (usually a second) count

7. 7
   verb

   narrate or give a detailed account of

8. 8
   noun

   Narration, account, description, rendering

Etymology

From Old Northern French and Anglo-Norman recunter, variant of Old French reconter.