Usually means: Count or record of total.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word tally:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tally: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tally, tally: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tally: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tally: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tally: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tally, tally: Wordnik
  7. tally: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Tally, tally: Wiktionary
  9. tally: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tally: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tally: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tally: Dictionary.com
  13. tally (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tally: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tally (cap), Tally (company), Tally (disambiguation), Tally (voting), Tally: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tally: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tally: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tally: Rhymezone
  19. tally: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tally: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Tally, Tally: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. tally: Free Dictionary
  23. tally: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Tally, tally: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. tally: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tally: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tally: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. tally: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tally, tally: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tally: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

(Note: See tallied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (by extension) One of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
noun:  (by extension) Any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially one kept in duplicate.
noun:  One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
noun:  A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
noun:  A tally shop.
noun:  A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
noun:  (informal, regional, dated) A state of cohabitation, living with another individual in an intimate relationship outside of marriage.
noun:  (UK, obsolete) Five dozen bunches of turnips.
verb:  (transitive) To count something.
verb:  (transitive) To mathematically calculate a numeric result.
verb:  (transitive) To record something by making marks.
verb:  (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other.
verb:  (intransitive) To keep score.
verb:  (intransitive) To correspond or agree.
verb:  (nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
adverb:  (obsolete) In a tall way; stoutly; with spirit.
noun:  A male given name
noun:  A female given name
noun:  Abbreviation of tally stick. [(historical) A bone, or piece of wood, on which notches or scores are cut, as the marks of number, for account keeping.]

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