tabulation

noun

Definition of tabulationnext
as in enumeration

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Recent Examples of tabulation Those reports, including a key March 2021 intelligence assessment about the 2020 election, concluded that none of those countries attempted to alter voter registration, ballot casting, tabulation or the reporting of results. — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 17 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tabulation
  1. enumeration
  2. classification
  3. inventory
  4. categorization
  5. indexing
  6. codification
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
  • The rules for selling e-bike classification labels also would become stricter.
    — Madison Smalstig July 18, Sacbee.com, 18 July 2026
  • The company says the software maintains more than 99% classification accuracy despite the dramatic reduction.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 July 2026
Definition of classification
Noun
  • The new office space alone is expected to be the largest addition to the city’s inventory in 43 years, said city economic development manager Michael Hennig in a June 2025 City Council work session.
    — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 July 2026
  • Condo prices slipped slightly as inventory remains elevated following new state safety requirements after the Surfside collapse.
    — Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026
Definition of inventory
Noun
  • At the heart of the album is Dahi’s exploration of identity through a musical lens that refuses easy categorization.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 10 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of categorization
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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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