english
1
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add up to sth
AMOUNT
1. to become a particular amount
• The various building programmes add up to several thousand new homes.
• We thought we'd bought lots of food, but it didn't add up to much when we'd spread it out on the table., add up to sth
RESULT
2. to have a particular result or effect
• It all added up to a lot of hard work for all of us.
• Their proposals do not add up to any real help for the poor., add (sth) up
[ M ]
to calculate the total of two or more numbers
• If you add those four figures up, it comes to over £500.
• She added the bill up.
• I'm not very good at adding up!
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs
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verb
put into:
Shall I add cream to your coffee?
verb
augment:
Add one to three and you get four.
Simple Definitions
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verb ADV. quickly, softly He added softly, ‘I missed you.’ VERB + ADD hasten to I hasten to add that I knew nothing of the fraud at the time.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary