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total

noun [ C ]

/ˈtəʊ.təl/ us

/ˈtoʊ.t̬əl/

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the amount you get when several smaller amounts are added together:

At that time of day, cars with only one occupant accounted for almost 80 percent of the total.

A total of 21 horses were entered in the race.

We made $1,000 in total, over three days of trading.

Synonymordbok: synonymer, antonymer og eksempler

to add up numbers

addAdd 24, 63, and 55.
add upMy job was to add up the scores at the end.
totalTotal the daily payments for a month and you arrive at your monthly expenditure.
find the sumFind the sum of the following numbers.
find the totalFind the total of £26.33, £55.09, and £109.65.
add up toThe figures add up to a huge amount.

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The school bazaar raised a total of £550.
The trip cost a total of £250, insurance included.
The average of the three numbers 7, 12 and 20 is 13, because the total of 7, 12 and 20 is 39, and 39 divided by 3 is 13.
These figures are expressed as a percentage of the total.
Unemployment is likely to reach the highest total that has ever been recorded.

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Calculations & calculating

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total

adjective

/ˈtəʊ.təl/ us

/ˈtoʊ.t̬əl/

total adjective (AMOUNT)

B1 [ before noun ]

including everything:

the total cost

Total losses were $800.

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The total amount raised so far is approaching $1000.
When you include all my overtime, my total pay is quite good.
What is the total oil output from the British sector of the North Sea?
We need to work out the total cost of the project.
Although sexual and violent crimes have increased by 10%, they remain only a tiny fraction of the total number of crimes committed each year.

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Complete and whole

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total adjective (VERY GREAT)

very great or of the largest degree possible:

total secrecy

a total disregard for their feelings

total silence

The organization of the event was a total shambles (= very bad).

The collapse, when it came, was total.

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She stared at him in total incomprehension.
Literary critics were in total disagreement about the value of the book.
The meeting was a total failure.
The Workers' Coalition experienced the ignominy of total defeat in the last election.
He's a total no-hoper - he'll never achieve anything.

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Complete and whole

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total

verb [ L only + noun, T ]

/ˈtəʊ.təl/ us

/ˈtoʊ.t̬əl/

-ll- or US usually -l-

total verb [L only + noun, T] (ADD UP)

to have as a complete amount, or to calculate this:

This is the eighth volume in the series, which totals 21 volumes in all.

We totalled (up) the money we had each earned, and then shared it equally between the three of us.

Synonymordbok: synonymer, antonymer og eksempler

to add up numbers

addAdd 24, 63, and 55.
add upMy job was to add up the scores at the end.
totalTotal the daily payments for a month and you arrive at your monthly expenditure.
find the sumFind the sum of the following numbers.
find the totalFind the total of £26.33, £55.09, and £109.65.
add up toThe figures add up to a huge amount.

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He ran up debts totalling nearly £3,000.
If you total their earnings for the year, you will see they are quite substantial.
Their combined service in the company totalled 50 years.

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Calculations & calculating

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total verb [L only + noun, T] (DAMAGE)

mainly US

(UK write off)

to damage a vehicle so badly that it cannot be repaired:

His son totaled the pickup when it was ten months old.

to damage something extremely badly:

The company hasn't just jeopardized its brand; it may have totaled it.

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Destroying and demolishing

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Du kan også finne relaterte ord, fraser og synonymer i følgende emner:

On the road: accidents involving vehicles

Damaging and spoiling

(Definisjon av total fra Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

total | Amerikansk ordbok

total

noun [ C ]

/ˈtoʊ·t̬əl/

total noun [C] (AMOUNT)

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the whole amount:

Add these up and give me the total.

We paid a total of $473.

in total

In total means including everything added together:

Last week 45 people in total came to the senior center.

total

adjective [ not gradable ]

/ˈtoʊ·t̬əl/

total adjective [not gradable] (COMPLETE)

complete or extreme:

Negotiations had to be held in total secrecy.

total adjective [not gradable] (INCLUDING AMOUNT)

including the whole amount:

Total grain exports have increased.

total

verb [ T ]

/ˈtoʊ·t̬əl/

total verb [T] (DESTROY)

to destroy something completely:

She didn’t total the car, but she did a lot of damage.

total verb [T] (HAVE AS AMOUNT)

-l- | -ll-

to have as a whole amount, or to calculate this:

This history series totals twelve volumes in all.

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total | Forretningsengelsk

total

noun

/ˈtəʊtəl/ us

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the amount or number that you get when several smaller amounts are added together:

a total of $20/£1,000/€3m, etc. We calculated all costs to the company and came to a total of $5,500.

We employ 534 staff in total.

We have a large workforce with women representing 30% of the total.

Se også

grand total
running total
subtotal
sum total

total

adjective

/ˈtəʊtəl/ us

[ before noun ]

including everything in a calculation or every person in a group:

total cost/expense These figures show the total cost of the project including staff salaries.

total gains/losses Can you give us an idea of our total losses?

The UK All Companies performance category averaged an 18.1% total return over the year.

Women represent a very small percentage of our total workforce.

complete or very great:

The project was a total disaster.

The audience listened in total silence.

total

verb [ T ]

/ˈtəʊtəl/ us

UK -ll | US -l-

to add up to a particular amount:

The annual salary bill totals more than $3 million.

They incurred losses totalling over $2 million.

(also total up)

to add up amounts to get a final number:

All costs have been totaled at the bottom of the column.

When they totalled up their losses, they realised they could not continue in business.

informal

to destroy a car in an accident:

They will pay the full cost to buy a new car if you total your car within the first year.

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Eksempler på total

total

This yields payoffs of 18 and 54 to the two players, respectively, for a total payoff of 72.

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Rice and wheat account for nearly 75% of the total food grains produced.

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Decline in soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in relation to tillage, stubble management and rotation.

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The y-axis represents fraction total organic carbon remaining.

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And this opening-up is at the last analysis a total organic wholeness of self-integration.

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However, what is reinforced by these data, is the very low percentage of flies in the total trapped population that bore pollinaria.

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This represented 19% of the total number of questionnaires sent out.

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A total of 92 % of eligible infants were recruited.

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A total of 37 participants were originally recruited.

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Total employee numbers were reduced from 1,180 to 975.

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In addition, we removed items with negative item- total correlations.

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In total, 75 participants took part in the study.

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The decline in residence with children was most rapid during the period from 1940 to 1980, when more than half the total change took place.

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The surprising behaviour of the surfaces of constant total pressure occurs entirely in the boundary layer.

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Note that the number of cases and controls in the tables do not always add up to the total because of missing values.

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cumulative total

Extensive bibliographies are given for each chapter, running to a cumulative total of 40 pages.

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overall total

Within each category, a number of indicators are employed, resulting in an overall total of sixty-two different measures for each case.

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rainfall total

However, this higher annual rainfall total was mainly due to the occurrence of several large storms in the rainy season (responsible for 90% of the annual rainfall).

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