(tallies, ~ing, tallied)
1.
A ~ is a record of amounts or numbers which you keep changing and adding to as the activity which affects it progresses.
They do not keep a ~ of visitors to the palace, but it is very popular...
N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N of n
2.
If one number or statement tallies with another, they agree with each other or are exactly the same. You can also say that two numbers or statements ~.
Its own estimate of three hundred tallies with that of another survey...
The figures didn’t seem to ~.
= correspond
V-RECIP: V with n, pl-n V
3.
If you ~ numbers, items, or totals, you count them.
...as we ~ the number of workers who have been laid off this year...
VERB: V n
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Tally up means the same as ~ .
Bookkeepers haven’t yet tallied up the total cost.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P