total

total
1 adjective
1 (only before noun) complete, and affecting or including everything: The sales campaign was a total disaster. | a total ban on cigarette advertising
2 total number/amount/cost etc the number, amount etc that is the total: total sales of 200,000 per year
2 noun (C)
1 the final number or amount of things, people etc when everything has been counted: If you add 30 and 45 the total is 75. | a total of: They were jailed for a total of thirty years. | in total: There were probably about 40 people there in total. | the sum total (=the whole of an amount when everything is considered together)
2 grand total
a) the final total, including all the totals added together
b) humorous used when you think the final total is small: I earned a grand total of $4.15.
3 verb totalled, totalling BrE, totaled, totaling AmE
1 (transitive, linking verb) to reach a particular total: losses totalling $3 million
2 (T) AmE informal to damage a car so badly that it cannot be repaired: Chuck ran into a telephone pole and totaled his dad's new Toyota.
total sth up phrasal verb (T) to find the total number or total amount of something by adding: At the end of the game total up everyone's score to see who has won.

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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