Verb

count out (third-person singular simple present counts out, present participle counting out, simple past and past participle counted out)Category:English lemmas#COUNTOUTCategory:English verbs#COUNTOUTCategory:English phrasal verbs#COUNTOUTCategory:English phrasal verbs formed with %22out%22#COUNTOUTCategory:English multiword terms#COUNTOUTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COUNTOUTCategory:Pages with entries#COUNT%20OUTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#COUNT%20OUT

2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COUNTOUT, of a person or factor) To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility.

   I may not be as young as I used to be, but I can still handle this job. Don't count me out.

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   They counted it out for these purposes because their accounting method handles it in another way.

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4. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COUNTOUT) To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them.

   Coordinate terms: count offCategory:English links with manual fragments#COUNT%20OUT, read offCategory:English links with manual fragments#COUNT%20OUT, read outCategory:English links with manual fragments#COUNT%20OUT

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

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6. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COUNTOUT, boxingCategory:en:Boxing#COUNTOUT, wrestlingCategory:en:Wrestling#COUNTOUT, professional wrestlingCategory:en:Professional wrestling#COUNTOUT) 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.

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

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8. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COUNTOUT) To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present.
10. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COUNTOUT) To prevent the accession of (a legitimately elected person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes.

See also

• counting-out game

References

• “count out”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• outcount