count out
verb- 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.
- To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them. · The bank teller counted out five twenty-dollar bills and gave them to me.
- 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.
- To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present.
- To prevent the accession of (a legitimately elected person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes.
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Danglars again became pale, and hastened to conduct the count out.
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