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to retabulate

to retabulate

1 8.1
To calculate numbers again and show them in rows and columns after a mistake
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈtæbjʊleɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : retabular
  • Election officials will retabulate the ballots to ensure all votes are accurately counted.

Examples

  • After discovering an error, the team decided to retabulate the survey results for better accuracy.

  • 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

to recalculate
vsto retabulate
9 3.6

To calculate numbers again to correct or update them

is limited to arranging corrected data into tables rather than general number work
to refigure
vsto retabulate
1 6.0

To calculate numbers again after a mistake or new information

is specifically about reorganizing corrected data into table form not broad adjustment
to recompute
vsto retabulate
  • Specialized
1 4.9

To calculate something again to update or correct it

focuses on arranging corrected data into tables rather than on redoing numbers

Surface Forms

retabulate infinitive
retabulated past participle
retabulating present participle
retabulates third person singular

Morphology

retabulate = tabulate (semi-transparent) = re + table + ate

The meaning is directly 'tabulate again', a standard and highly recognizable use of the prefix 're-'.

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.