noun
- plural of tallyman: people who keep count or record of items, transactions, or scores
- plural of tallyman: door-to-door salesmen who sell goods on credit and collect payments in installments
Usage: historical; British
Examples
- The warehouse employed several tallymen to track inventory.
- Tallymen recorded each shipment as it arrived at the dock.
- In the old days, tallymen would visit homes weekly to collect payments.
- The election required multiple tallymen to count the ballots accurately.
- Tallymen kept careful records of all merchandise sold on credit.
- The port authority hired experienced tallymen for the busy shipping season.