I. tal ‧ ly 1 /ˈtæli/ BrE AmE noun ( plural tallies ) [countable]
[ Date: 1400-1500 ; Language: Medieval Latin ; Origin: talea , tallia , from Latin talea ; ⇨ ↑ tailor 1 ]
a record of how much you have spent, won etc by a particular point in time:
The final tally was $465,000.
the two goals that took his tally for Scotland to 15
Keep a tally of (=write down) the number of cars that pass.
II. tally 2 BrE AmE verb ( past tense and past participle tallied , present participle tallying , third person singular tallies )
1 . [intransitive] ( also tally up ) if numbers or statements tally, they match exactly:
Some of the records held by the accounts departments did not tally.
tally with
The number of ballot papers did not tally with the number of voters.
2 . [transitive] to calculate a total number