Usually means: Counting or recording numbers systematically.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. tallying: Merriam-Webster
  2. tallying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tallying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tallying: Vocabulary.com
  5. Tallying, tallying: Wordnik
  6. tallying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tallying: Wiktionary
  8. tallying: Dictionary.com
  9. tallying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Tallying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Tallying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. tallying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. tallying: FreeDictionary.org
  14. tallying: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tallying: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tallying: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tallying: Idioms

(Note: See tally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tally)

noun:  (by extension) One of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
noun:  (by extension) Any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially one kept in duplicate.
noun:  One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
noun:  A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
noun:  A tally shop.
noun:  A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
noun:  (informal, regional, dated) A state of cohabitation, living with another individual in an intimate relationship outside of marriage.
noun:  (UK, obsolete) Five dozen bunches of turnips.
verb:  (transitive) To count something.
verb:  (transitive) To mathematically calculate a numeric result.
verb:  (transitive) To record something by making marks.
verb:  (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other.
verb:  (intransitive) To keep score.
verb:  (intransitive) To correspond or agree.
verb:  (nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
adverb:  (obsolete) In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.
noun:  A male given name.
noun:  A female given name.
noun:  Abbreviation of tally stick. [(historical) A bone, or piece of wood, on which notches or scores are cut, as the marks of number, for account keeping.]
▸ Also see tally


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