Meaning & use
Tallying
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Counting or recording a running total of something, or matching up with or corresponding to another figure.
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The clerk spent the afternoon tallying receipts from the weekend sale.
His account of the accident wasn't tallying with what witnesses described.
A note on using this word
Comes from "tally," originally a notched stick used to record debts or counts before written ledgers became common.
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