Amount - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |əˈmaʊnt|  American pronunciation of the word amount
Brit.  |əˈmaʊnt|  British pronunciation of the word amount

noun

- a quantity of money (syn: sum)
the amount he had in cash was insufficient
- the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion
an adequate amount of food for four people
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify (syn: measure, quantity)
- a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers (syn: sum, total)

verb

- be tantamount or equivalent to
Her action amounted to a rebellion
- add up in number or quantity (syn: add up, come, number, total)
The bills amounted to $2,000
- develop into (syn: add up, come)
This idea will never amount to anything

Extra examples

The drug is not being produced in adequate amounts.

What is the amount to be paid?

An amount was finally agreed upon.

The new law limits the amount a candidate can spend.

When he died we found he owed money to the amount of $250,000!

The amount of it is that you have too much to say in this case.

This amounts to a refusal.

I don't see how Jim can ever amount to much.

They spend equal amounts of time in California and New York.

Please pay the full amount (=of money) by the end of the month.

Her case has attracted an enormous amount of public sympathy.

Dina encountered a fair amount of envy among her colleagues.

What is the amount of this?

The bill amounts to £40.

What, after all, does it amount to?

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: amount
he/she/it: amounts
present participle: amounting
past tense: amounted
past participle: amounted
noun
singular: amount
plural: amounts
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