count up

verb, noun — 3 senses

count up

verbalso spelled count-up
1

To count (things or people) so as to add up and get a sum total.

  • He counted up the glasses, and realized there were fifteen missing.
Related terms
and counting

count-up

noun

› Alternative form of countup.

1

Enumeration

  • He used to drop in large sheets of badly-typed notes, most of them about the technicalities of performance, including a tendency to become inaudible around the 'quick count-up', and leave too many pauses between lines.2013, Ron Moody, A Still Untitled (Not Quite) Autobiography, →ISBN:
2

Session for counting something

  • Were you present at the count-up of the receipts following that fight?1914, New York Supreme Court Appellate Division-First Department Papers on Appeal from Order Dated March 11, 1914, page 26:

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