Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which tallies; one who keeps a tally.
- noun Same as
teller , 1 . - noun In some card-games, the banker. See
tally , intransitive verb, 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who keeps tally.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
tallies , who counts.
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Examples
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Formerly accounts were kept, and large sums of money paid and received, by the King's Exchequer, with little other form than the exchange or delivery of tallies, pieces of wood notched or scored, corresponding blocks being kept by the parties to the account; and from this usage one of the head officers of the Exchequer was called the tallier, or teller.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Mar/Apr 1664/65 Pepys, Samuel 1665
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Even the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the official tallier of the nation's joblessness, stoops to shed.
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It was true when George W. Bush made 77 visits to his ranch in Crawford and spent all or part of 490 days there during his presidency, according to CBS News 'Mark Knoller, official tallier of presidential downtime.
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There were four observers at each of the eight tables: two observers (one for each candidate) observed the reader of the ballot and two observers (again one for each candidate) observed the tallier.
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After spending over 20 minutes with a rather sharp phone tallier for Conyers, his honest and surprisingly candid answers to my questions came to this, for the most part it's better that you contact your local politicians.
Suddenly, Impeachment Hearings Are Looking Like a Strong Possibility 2007
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Best not to be a strict tallier of time, he reasoned.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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Best not to be a strict tallier of time, he reasoned.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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Best not to be a strict tallier of time, he reasoned.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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Best not to be a strict tallier of time, he reasoned.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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Best not to be a strict tallier of time, he reasoned.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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