count off

1. Count aloud from one end of a line of persons to the other, each person counting in turn. For example, The soldiers counted off one by one . This usage and the practice it describes come from the military.

2. Place in a separate group by counting, as in The office counted off the telephone books for each delivery route .

Example Sentences

But around the crypt there were more cells than I could count off-hand.

From Project Gutenberg

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