PV - Add up to sth

Add up to sth

*If separate amounts add up to a total amount, together they form that total: His business expenses add up to around £4,000 a year.

*To combine to produce a particular result or effect: These new measures do not add up to genuine reform.

AMOUNT

*To become a particular amount: The various building programmes add up to several thousand new homes: # We thought we’d bought lots of food, but it didn’t add up to much when we’d spread it out on the table.

*If numbers or amounts add up to a particular total, they result in that total: This adds up to 75000 miles of new streets.

*You talk about things adding up to something when they result in it or suggest it: This adds up to a formidable list of qualifications. # Most of the evidence adds up to the clear conclusion that human beings are able to control their feelings. # The shapes, the glowing colours; they all seem to add up to a work of art.

*To make a total amount of something: The numbers add up to exactly 100.

RESULT

*To produce a particular total or result: Rising prison population and overcrowding add up to a real crisis.

*To have a particular result or effect: It all added up to a lot of hard work for all of us. # Their proposal do not add up to any real help for the poor.

*To lead to a particular result; to show something: These clues don’t really add up to very much (=give us very little information).

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