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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
miscount
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Census Bureau officials announced that they miscounted the nation's official population by 5 million people.
▪ I thought everyone was here, but I must have miscounted.
▪ They claim some ballots were miscounted.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Miscount

Miscount \Mis*count"\, v. t. & i. [Cf. OF. mesconter, F. m['e]compter. Cf. Miscompute.] To count erroneously.

Miscount

Miscount \Mis*count"\, n. [Cf. F. m['e]compte error, OF. mesconte.]

  1. An erroneous counting.

  2. Specifically: An erroneous count of ballots cast in an election.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
miscount

late 14c., from Old French mesconter "give a false statement; miscalculate, be wrong in reckoning;" see mis- (2) + count (v). Related: Miscounted; miscounting.

miscount

1580s, from mis- (1) + count (n.).

Wiktionary
miscount

vb. To incorrectly count or add up

WordNet
miscount

  1. n. an inaccurate count

  2. v. count wrongly

Usage examples of "miscount".

She wanted to be mistaken, to have misplaced, miscounted the essentially interchangeable stock, but knew at once that no amount of wishful thinking, checking, rechecking the shelves, could erase the stubborn fact of loss gaping up at her from the mockingly vacant slots of the gem trays.

You do not arrive at the polling booth to find men with revolvers telling you which way to vote, nor are the votes miscounted, nor is there any direct bribery.

I could only think he had miscounted, or in his fever to join my enterprise was ready to take a loss.

She wanted to be mistaken, to have misplaced, miscounted the essentially interchangeable stock, but knew at once that no amount of wishful thinking, checking, rechecking the shelves, could erase the stubborn fact of loss gaping up at her from the mockingly vacant slots of the gem trays.

But then I started wondering whether we're still miscounting, And you know what?

In the first instance, to borrow from Flannery, it is like miscounting by a dollar when counting to a thousand.

You can't change the weather by fiddling with the thermometer, and you can't prevent a revolution by miscounting, or not counting at all, the votes of the majority.

They'll do everything from stuffing ballot boxes to miscounting our votes.