count

/kaʊnt/ noun

Definition

› the action of counting something, or the total number you get after counting: At the last count the club had 410 members.

lose count › to forget how many of something there is: I’ve lost count of the number of times she’s arrived late.

(Definition of count noun from the Cambridge Essential Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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