to add together all the things or people in a group
Have you counted up how many people are coming on Saturday?
phrasecount up count up sb/sth • count sb/sth up to count the people or things in a group to find out how many of them there are: The quiz master counts up the scores, and then announces which team is the winner.We need to count up all the people that we want to invite to the wedding.■ SIMILAR TO: add up
count up
To tally the total amount of something. Count up all the people in this room so we know how many trays of hors d'oeuvres to bring out.
count someone or something up
to count things or people to see how many there are. Let's count them up and see how many we have.I counted all the guests up, and there are too many to seat.Please count up all these books and tell me how many there are.