count out

verb5

1. •
   To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them.

   • The bank teller counted out five twenty-dollar bills and gave them to me.
2. •
   To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility.

   • I may not be as young as I used to be, but I can still handle this job. Don't count me out.
   • They counted it out for these purposes because their accounting method handles it in another way.
3. •
   To determine that a competitor has lost a match, by a referee's enumeration aloud of the increments of time for which the competitor has been incapacitated.

   • The champ was knocked unconscious and counted out in the third round.
4. •
   To prevent the accession of (a legitimately elected person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes.
5. •
   To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present.