TABULATION Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

tabulation

noun

Definition of tabulation

as in enumeration

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Recent Examples of tabulation The clerk's office is preparing equipment and procedural updates ahead of the November 2026 general election, including tabulation methods to prevent a recurrence. — Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026 The incident highlighted in the declassified materials, however, concerns the security of voter registration information rather than ballots or vote tabulation. — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 6 Aug. 2026 An extended tabulation could hurt the party’s credibility and damage the nominee, South Carolina backers argued. — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 24 July 2026 The potential for fraud and long delays in tabulation can undermine confidence in elections, especially when voters have formed expectations of efficient and competent election administration. — Andrew E. Busch, The Conversation, 23 July 2026 David Ulloa Jr Glendale vote tabulation machines are back up, according to voters at the Glendale ASU West polling location. — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2026 The board will handle other areas, including election day voting, ballot tabulation and voting location equipment maintenance. — Josh Kelety, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026 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

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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

Noun

Those points can matter because security classification helps determine the level of institution in which a person serves a sentence.

— Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
The union and the company will work to facilitate the employees' return over the next 30 days and warned that the process may come with some challenges, including different job classifications returning on different schedules.

— Christa Swanson, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of classification

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Its purpose should guide the choice of format and location, along with decisions about assortment, inventory, layout, technology, and employee capabilities.

— Ayşe Çetinel, Harvard Business Review, 18 Aug. 2026
The oldest baby boomers turn 80 this year, and won’t typically start downsizing until their mid-80s, meaning the inventory constraints that have locked millennials out of the market have another decade to run.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of inventory

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Good visual organization and logical categorization can bypass that mental load, though.

— Osman Koc, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
The regulations also establish a process through which a player may seek a change in categorization by demonstrating that no competitive advantage would result.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of categorization

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As the Web Almanac pointed out, the rise in video content comes with greater energy consumption and computational demands, as heavier pages drive up bandwidth usage, processing load and the overall energy footprint of web crawling and indexing.

— Tal Lev-Ami, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Many users found pages through Yahoo-style directories, bookmarks, newsgroups, email signatures, and links from site to site because the web was still small enough that human organization could compete with machine indexing.

— Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of indexing

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Unlike the majority of the Mishnah—the codification of the Jewish Oral Law—Pirkei Avot has very little Halakhic content and instead emphasizes general ethical matters conveyed through aphorisms attributed to ancient rabbinic sages.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
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

Definition of codification

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