TABULATION Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

tabulation

noun

Definition of tabulation

as in enumeration

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Recent Examples of tabulation Erickson’s lawyer, Justin Smith, said his party asked for only a single master report at the end of absentee tabulation. — Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 8 July 2026 The tabulation is already higher than Moody’s last estimate of the war’s cost to households. — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 1 July 2026 In a ruling with direct bearing on the midterm elections, the Supreme Court on Monday narrowly upheld a Mississippi law allowing tabulation of late-arriving mail-in ballots so long as they were postmarked by Election Day. — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 29 June 2026 The Big Ten and SEC also netted 83% of five-star athletes and 65% of four-star athletes in December in LeRoy’s tabulation for the Seton Hall Law Review. — Teresa M. Walker, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026 Lawmakers passed legislation two years ago requiring the state to move away from QR-code vote tabulation by July 2026. — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 18 June 2026 In the past, elections office staff extracted ballots from envelopes using a machine, which occasionally cut into ballots and required them to be duplicated because the damage would interfere with tabulation. — Sacbee.com, 11 June 2026 Concerns over California’s vote-counting process have persisted throughout the election cycle, with candidates competing in the state’s primary races raising questions about the pace of ballot tabulation. — Kiara Moore, The Washington Examiner, 7 June 2026 He is charged with one count of unlawful voting by aliens and one count of the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that are known to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under state law. — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026

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Noun

Females, minors &c are excluded from the polls, but are included in the enumeration of persons on whom representation is apportioned.

— Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
The drafts were messy, but, in reality, so, too, were the handwritten ones—their own version of chaos with arrows, enumerations, and strikethroughs.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 May 2026

Definition of enumeration

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In the first classification of Saint-Émilion wines in 1954, Château Angelus was awarded Grand Cru Classé.

— Lewis Chester, Robb Report, 11 July 2026
The classification of these objects as true comets has been complicated by the fact that no one has ever managed to witness a dark comet sprouting a tail—until now.

— Darryl Z. Seligman, Scientific American, 10 July 2026

Definition of classification

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The company's shares have struggled because biotechnology customers spent much of the past two years working through excess inventory accumulated during the pandemic.

— Harvey Stober, CNBC, 14 July 2026
Those duties include protecting estate assets, notifying creditors, maintaining financial records and filing an inventory of the estate with the court.

— Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 14 July 2026

Definition of inventory

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At two hours and 40 minutes, the film defies categorization, blending musical, comedic, dramatic, and satirical elements into a tumultuous examination of the American spirit.

— Air Mail, Air Mail, 4 July 2026
The World Health Organization’s definition of adolescence from 10-19 years of age is not a categorization routinely used for surgical decision-making.

— Kavitha Ranganathan, STAT, 29 June 2026

Definition of categorization

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Direct indexing means owning the individual stocks that make up an index, like the S&P 500 or the Russell 1000, rather than buying the index through a mutual fund or ETF.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 1 July 2026
There are comments about battery life being worse — but that may be down to indexing as the release is just hours old.

— David Phelan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

Definition of indexing

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The codification of what became soccer Public school graduates took their versions of the game with them to the next level.

— Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
Three Americans died in the 1996 incident that led to sanctions and the codification of the trade embargo on Cuba that remains in place today.

— Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 20 May 2026

Definition of codification

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