Amount to sth (not
continuous)
(Add up)
*If you say that something amounts to a
particular sum or member, you mean that its total is that quality: Very high
fees which amount to $5400. # Her entire fortune, which amounted by then to a
considerable sum of money. # A huge infantry force which with reserves amounted
ro 30000 men.
= ADD TO, TOTAL
*To add up to a particular total: His monthly
earnings amount to about £2,000.
*If you say that an idea, feeling, statement,
or action amount to something you mean that it seems like that to you: His
attitude towards her amounted to loathing. # The proposals amount to a new
charter for the mentally ill. # The message amounted to little more than
personal regards.
*If figures, sums, etc. amount to a particular
total, they equal that total when they are added together: Time lost through
illness amounted to 1375 working days.
*To become a particular amount: The annual cost
of income support unmarried mothers amounted to $700 million that year.
*To add up to something; to make something as a
total: His earnings are said to amount to $300000 per annum. # They gave me
some help in the beginning but it did not amount to much (=they did not give me much help).
*If you say that something amounts to little,
you mean that it is unimportant, and if you say that it amounts to a great
deal, you mean that it is important: The trouble had amounted to hardly
anything. # It had never amounted to much.
(Be)
*To be the same as or equal to something else: Two
dates in nine years hardly amounts to an active social life.
*To have the same effect as something else: The
court decided that the company’s actions amounted to unfair dismissal.
*If an attitude, remark, situation, etc.
amounts to something, it has the same effect: The court’s decision amounts to a
not guilty verdict. # Ultimately, their ideas amount to the same thing.
*To be equal to or the same as something: Her
answer amounted to a complete refusal, # Their actions amount to a breach of
contract. # We were jailed for a week – well, confined to quarters, but it
amounted to the same thing.
*To be the same as something, or to have the
same effect as something: His behaviour amounted to serious professional
misconduct. # He gave what amounted to an apology on behalf of his company.
amount noun,
verb
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