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Meaning of count out

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

count out

verb

Definitions

  1. (of a person) To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility.

    Example: I may not be as young as I used to be, but I can still handle this job. Don't count me out.

  2. To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them.

    Example: The bank teller counted out five twenty-dollar bills and gave them to me.

  3. 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.

    Example: The champ was knocked unconscious and counted out in the third round.

  4. To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present.