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sum total
noun
- complete numerical total:
the sum total of my savings.
- essence; substance:
The sum total of research in the field.
Word History and Origins
Origin of sum total1
Idioms and Phrases
The entirety, everything, as in I spent all day in the kitchen and the sum total of my efforts is this cake . [Mid-1600s]Example Sentences
The sum total of these ideas is our culture, which “makes our individual lives rich and fulfilling,” he said.
In other words, the sum total of that company’s annual contracts adds up to the equivalent of the entire U.S. budget for diplomacy.
Until then, Dr. Kotchick said, the sum total of his nautical experience had been riding ferries.
While little is known of her early years, here is the sum total of what we do know.
Over the last three years, Constantine said, inflation has been a sum total of nearly 23%.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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