summing ups

Noun

summing up (plural summings up or summing ups)

1. A summary of the main points, especially (law) a judge's recapitulation of the evidence given to a jury before it withdraws to consider its verdict.
   • Here is one of the most masterly summing ups of the present industrial warfare 'between men and women that has come to this column. It shows the present dilemma and how it has come to be, but it does not suggest a solution, for the writer realizes, in common with most thinking people, that at...1921 September 1, “Cry on Geraldine’s Shoulder”, in Oakland Tribune, volume XCV, number 53, Oakland, Calif.: Tribune Publishing Co., page 10, column 6