ALL TOLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does all told mean? 

• ALL TOLD (adverb)
  The adverb ALL TOLD has 1 sense:

1. with everything included or counted

  Familiarity information: ALL TOLD used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALL TOLD (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With everything included or counted

Synonyms:

all told; altogether; in all

Context example:

altogether he earns close to a million dollars

 Context examples 

You're a good boy, or I'm mistook; but you're on'y a boy, all told.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I ran my eyes over them—twenty men all told; twenty-two including the man at the wheel and myself.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

All told, the space telescopes observed 12 transits and 20 eclipses.

(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)

Nearly a hundred souls were in her, all told, when we set sail from Falmouth.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were six of the buccaneers, all told; not another man was left alive.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As there were nine boats all told, it meant that we should have plenty of water, and ballast as well, though there was the chance that the boat would be overloaded, what of the generous supply of other things I was taking.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

All told, we had scarce two miles to run; but the navigation was delicate, the entrance to this northern anchorage was not only narrow and shoal, but lay east and west, so that the schooner must be nicely handled to be got in.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)