amount to sth
— phrasal verb with amount uk/əˈmaʊnt/us/əˈmaʊnt/verb
(ADD UP TO)
to become a particular amount:
Their annual fuel bills amounted to over £6,000.
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- Radical remarks like this amount to heresy for most members of the Republican party.
- It doesn't matter whether you do it first or last - it all amounts to the same thing.
- The available information amounts to very little in toto.
- Army leaders say the retreat from the area does not amount to an end to the war.
- His teachers thought he'd never amount to anything.
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Calculations & calculating
- aggregate
- algorithm
- amount
- average
- come to sth
- commutative
- computational
- equate
- figure
- gauge
- get/have your sums right/wrong idiom
- grand total
- guesstimate
- instantaneous velocity
- miscalculate
- projected
- put
- put sth at sth
- result
- triangulation
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(BE)
to be the same as something, or to have the same effect as something:
His behaviour amounted to serious professional misconduct.
He gave what amounted to an apology on behalf of his company.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Similar and the same
- a level playing field idiom
- affinity
- akin
- alike
- allied
- approach
- clock
- difference
- equal
- every inch idiom
- firm
- homogeneous
- homogenous
- identical
- inch
- resemblance
- Rome
- same
- same difference idiom
- same old same old idiom
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