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sum total

noun

  1. complete numerical total:

    the sum total of my savings.

  2. essence; substance:

    The sum total of research in the field.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sum total1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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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]
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Starting in the 1950s and up to 2019, there was a sum total of roughly 2,000 operating satellites in orbit.

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Europe is a sum total of different countries with different-sized budgets and diverse domestic politics and priorities.

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The sum total of these ideas is our culture, which “makes our individual lives rich and fulfilling,” he said.

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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.

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Until then, Dr. Kotchick said, the sum total of his nautical experience had been riding ferries.

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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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