to retabulate
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8.1
- verb
- /ˌriːˈtæbjʊleɪt/
- Specialized
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retabular
- Election officials will retabulate the ballots to ensure all votes are accurately counted.
Examples
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After discovering an error, the team decided to retabulate the survey results for better accuracy.
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I'm not sure it's a mistake to retabulate, given the questions that seem legitimate.
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Votes are to be retabulated in the Florida congressional race.
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Election officials will begin retabulating the roughly 20,000 additional early votes at 9 a.m. on Saturday, he said.
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If the trailing candidate were a Democrat, I think most people here would support at least retabulating the rest of the early votes.
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But I don't think it is bad for anyone if they demonstrate it by retabulating the rest of the early ballots.
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Starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, election officials will retabulate a total of 33,379 ballots from all eight days of early voting in St. Lucie County, he explained.
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It isn't obvious how retabulating some votes for cause undermines the process as a whole.
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Before the canvassing board voted, state Division of Elections official David Drury made a personal recommendation that all early votes in the county be retabulated after officials realized there were 304 early voting ballots that were never counted.
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The accounting department will retabulate the financial data following the recent updates to the records.
Synonyms
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3.6
To calculate numbers again to correct or update them
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6.0
To calculate numbers again after a mistake or new information
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4.9
To calculate something again to update or correct it
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word retabulate is made of the parts re- 'again' and tabula 'table', the same root behind English table and tabulate. So to retabulate is to make the tables again — to arrange or calculate the data one more time after a correction.