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total
verbs
make a total of 100 etc
• The £1,750 raised by staff has been matched by the company, making a total of £3,500.
bring the total to 100 etc
• Police arrested more than 200 protesters yesterday, bringing the total detained to nearly 500.
add to a total
• He wants to add to his total of three Olympic gold medals.
adjectives
the final total
• Mrs Menzies said the final total could be as much as £750.
the sum total
(= the whole of an amount, when everything is added together )
• This was the sum total of her grandfather's possessions.
a combined/overall total
(= the sum of two or more amounts added together )
• The Jones family has a combined total of 143 years' service with the company.
an annual/monthly/weekly/daily total
• The Government plans to increase the annual total of 2,500 adoptions by up to 50%.
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noun ADJ. annual, monthly | combined, cumulative, grand, overall, sum His two goals give him a grand total of 32 for the season. The sum total of my knowledge of biology is not impressive. | final | high, huge, large, record a record total of victories | low, small | global, national, world/worldwide | jobless, unemployment Britain's jobless total rose by 20,000 last month. VERB + TOTAL add up to, give, make (up) Their earnings were £250, £300 and £420, giving a total of £970. | bring, take A donation of £250 has been received, bringing the total to £3,750. | achieve The Greens achieved a total of 18 seats. TOTAL + VERB rise | fall PREP. in ~ In total, they spent 420 hours on the project. | out of a ~ of 180 vehicles out of a total of 900 examined were not roadworthy. | ~ of
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