recount

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Leaders of the three main opposition parties say that the recount was a sham designed to cover up election violations and to secure the Communist Party's power.

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  1. transitive verb To narrate the facts or particulars of. See Synonyms at describe.
  2. transitive verb To enumerate.

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  • One interesting thing about this recount has been the media's propensity to report on it as if it were a second campaign. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Franken didn't CALL for a recount, the recount was required by law. —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
  • I can accept that Franken may have won the election, Coleman's protests notwithstanding, but the obvious corruption of the method used in the recount is appalling. —  Stolen Thunder
  • Fox & Friends that "the inestimable economist" John Lott Jr. has said the "500 corrections" made to unofficial Senate election returns prior to the beginning of the recount is a "statistical impossibility." —  Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire
  • Causing mass confusion and sparking the infamous recount, as —  The Chicago Blog
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recount:   recounted ·  recounting ·  recounts
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English recounten, from Old French reconter : re-, re- + conter, relate; see count1.

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  1. Early modern English also recompt; from Middle English recompten, from Old French reconter (cf. French raconter) =Spanish Portuguese recontar =Italian ricontare, from Middle Latin recomputare, recall to mind, narrate, count, relate, from Latin re-, again, + computare, count, compute: see count.
  2. from , re- + count.
  3. from recount, v.
 

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