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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