miscount
/mɪsˈkaʊnt
/verb [with object]
Count (something) incorrectly: in some instances the votes were deliberately miscounted [no object]: the police admitted that they had miscounted...
- If they discover that the election was miscounted, reimburse them.
- Of the others, one runner miscounted his circuits and ran one lap too few, and the other gave up after being lapped by all four Harriers competitors.
- I've been using the kitchen balance scale and must have miscounted the total of the little brass weights.
noun /ˈmɪskaʊnt /
/An incorrect reckoning: a miscount necessitates a recount...
- Colonel Tucker paused and enjoyed the murmur of chatter his intentional miscount had provoked before continuing with, ‘Just a moment, my count may be in error.’
- I discovered four magic words, ‘voting machines and glitch,’ which, when entered into a search engine, yielded a shocking result: A staggering pile of miscounts was accumulating.
- But election officials in California say there have never been any known miscounts or fraud involving the machines.
