count out
verb1
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.
- They counted it out for these purposes because their accounting method handles it in another way.
2
To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them.
- The bank teller counted out five twenty-dollar bills and gave them to me.
3
Boxing, Government, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Martial arts, Military, Politics, Professional wrestling, Sports, War, Wrestling 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.
4
To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present.
5
To prevent the accession of (a legitimately elected person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes.
- Derived terms
- countout
- Related terms
- down for the count, counting-out game