tally — OET · Shobdo

tally

noun

1 an officer keeps a tally of the amount due to each man:

running total, count, record, reckoning, enumeration, register, account, roll, itemization, listing;

census, poll.

2 his tally of 1,816 wickets is still a county record:

total, score, count, sum, result.

3 the key is so cut as to form a tally with interior machinery:

counterpart, match, mate, duplicate.

verb

1 these statistics tally fairly well with government figures:

correspond, agree, accord, concur, coincide, match, fit, be in agreement, be consistent, conform, equate, harmonize, suit, be in tune, dovetail, correlate, parallel;

informal square;

North American, informal jibe.

▷antonyms disagree, differ.

2 votes were being tallied with abacuses:

count, calculate, add up, total, enumerate, compute;

figure out, work out, reckon, measure, quantify, rate;

British tot up.

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