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sum-totals

sum-totals is the plural of sum-total.

Meaning of sum-total

Noun

sum-total (plural sum-totals)

  1. Total.
    • We first add the sums in the money columns of the credit side of the account, and find they amount to $57 .50, which is the sum-total of all I have received from him.1855, Ira Mayhew, A Practical System of Book-Keeping by single and double entry
  2. Entirety.
    • Shakspere's plots are, almost without exception, distinguished by their complexity. The mystery or surprise which makes up the sum-total of many a plot, becomes in Shakspere only one amongst many details.1887, R.G. Moulton, “On Othello as a Type of Plot”, in Publications of the New Shakspere Society, page 431
  3. Epitome.
    • He is the end of creation. "The sum-total of all animals.” He is the great archetype to which all creation has tended, from its first and humblest form, upward and onward through every fresh effort of God's creating power.1869, W. Weldon Champneys, Things New and Old: Sermons preached at St. Paul's and St. Pancras, page 38

Questions about sum-totals

What is sum-totals the plural of?
Sum-totals is the plural of sum-total.

Words near sum-totals in the dictionary

  1. sum of parts
  2. sum total
  3. sum totals
  4. sum up
  5. sum-total
  6. sum-totals
  7. sum-up
  8. sum-ups
  9. sum1
  10. Suma
  11. sumac

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