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TOT UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tot up mean?
• TOT UP (verb)
The verb TOT UP has 1 sense:
1. determine the sum of
Familiarity information: TOT UP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Determine the sum of
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
add; add together; add up; sum; sum up; summate; tally; tot; tot up; total; tote up
Context example:
Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town
Hypernyms (to "tot up" is one way to...):
count; enumerate; number; numerate (determine the number or amount of)
Verb group:
add; add together (make an addition by combining numbers)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples
Can you do addition? Well, then, let us see if you can tot up my prize-money.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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