addverb [ I or T ]
uk/æd/us/æd/A2 to put two or more numbers or amounts together to get a total:
If you add (= calculate the total of) three and four you get seven.
It's $45 - $50 if you add in (= include) the cost of postage.
Don't forget to add on your travelling expenses/add your expenses on.
A2 to put something with something else to increase the number or amount or to improve the whole:
Beat the butter and sugar together and slowly add the eggs.
She's added a Picasso to her collection.
Her colleagues' laughter only added to (= increased) her embarrassment.
B1 to say another thing:
[ + that ] She was sad, she said, but added (= said also) that she felt she had made the right decision.
[ + speech ] "Oh, and thank you for all your help!" he added as he was leaving.
More examples
- First, fry the garlic. Next, add the ginger.
- You have to add the cost of postage to the subtotal.
- If you add the plural inflection '-s' to 'dog' you get 'dogs'.
- Two of the cathedral's chapels were added later - the Lady Chapel and the Chapel of St Paul.
- Have you anything further to add to the discussion?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Augmenting and supplementing
- a new lease of life idiom
- accrual
- accrue
- add on sth
- addendum
- addition
- annexure
- bulk
- bulk sth up
- extension
- gain
- horizon
- incremental
- interpolate
- new
- tag sth on
- top sth up
- weight
- write
- write sth into sth
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Saying & uttering
Idiom(s)
not add up
to add insult to injury
Phrasal verb(s)
add on sth
add (sth) up
add up to sth