sum total
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- noun
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suma total
- The sum total of all the donations collected was impressive and greatly exceeded our expectations.
- represent the sum total
They increase the sum total of wealth in society.
- They increase the sum total of wealth in society.
- My life is the sum total of every vision that I've made.
- Well, The thing is as a Christian, like firstly, I know that this life is, is not the sum total of existence.
- So lifetime value is the sum total of all sales of a customer with a business.
- And so the the operative assumption there is that you are the sum total of your choices and that free will is everything.
- But I, I think that when, when we communicate, we have access to the sum total of all of our thoughts and everything we've ever, ever said that we can remember.
- And when you do that, the sum total is they're all wrong.
- It was so big that he felt it was the sum total of the universe.
- You know you'll all your achievements will be the sum total of the things you paid attention to, right?
- So you could think of it as like the sum total of all perfections that are genuine perfections.
- And your ego, which is the sum total of the conditioning that you don't recognize the the unobserved mind.
- Or here's another way he puts it, the sum total of every determinateness.
Examples
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We are in fact, the sum total of our choices.
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However, know that the brand is the sum total of what people think about your organization.
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Really, in truth, it is the sum total of everything.
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But the sum total of that product is that the middle class gets hurt.
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A person is what he or she is as the sum total of these actions.
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So lifetime value is the sum total of all sales of a customer with a business.
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Both books appeared to represent the sum total of the expedition.
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My life is the sum total of every vision that I've made.
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The sum total of all of these events made this topic timely, challenging, and problematic.
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By mid-1992, the sum total of debt the American government had accumulated exceeded the $4 trillion mark.
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Synonyms
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1.0
The whole amount you get when you add numbers together
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1.0
The total you get when you add two or more numbers
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2.7
The final amount after adding and subtracting everything
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5.8
The total amount formed by adding several separate parts
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6.1
A group of things joined together as one whole
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4.8
The total you get when you add things together
A summary that adds together smaller numbers from different parts
How Complete
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'entirety/final amount' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'sum' and 'total', since both constituents denote an aggregated numeric amount and the phrase functions as a tautological/emphatic reiteration rather than an idiomatic shift. This compositionality is predictable and parallels exist in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows the words would readily understand the expression.
Etymology
Sum total comes from the simple idea of adding things: you put parts together to get the sum, the final total, so the phrase means 'the whole amount' or 'everything added together'.