sum total
total
adjective
uk /ˈtəʊtəl/us
[ before noun ]
including everything in a calculation or every person in a group:
total cost/expenseThese figures show the total cost of the project including staff salaries.
total gains/lossesCan you give us an idea of our total losses?
The UK All Companies performance category averaged an 18.1% total return over the year.
Women represent a very small percentage of our total workforce.
complete or very great:
The project was a total disaster.
The audience listened in total silence.
total
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈtəʊtəl/us
UK-ll | US-l-
to add up to a particular amount:
The annual salary bill totals more than $3 million.
They incurred losses totalling over $2 million.
(alsototal up)
to add up amounts to get a final number:
All costs have been totaled at the bottom of the column.
When they totalled up their losses, they realised they could not continue in business.
informal
to destroy a car in an accident:
They will pay the full cost to buy a new car if you total your car within the first year.

Examples of total

total
Figure 2a illustrates specifically the total expected sampling cost of those plans and clearly shows a trend of increasing cost with smaller sampling units.
This yields payoffs of 18 and 54 to the two players, respectively, for a total payoff of 72.
Rice and wheat account for nearly 75% of the total food grains produced.
Decline in soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in relation to tillage, stubble management and rotation.
The y-axis represents fraction total organic carbon remaining.
And this opening-up is at the last analysis a total organic wholeness of self-integration.
However, what is reinforced by these data, is the very low percentage of flies in the total trapped population that bore pollinaria.
This represented 19% of the total number of questionnaires sent out.
A total of 92 % of eligible infants were recruited.
A total of 37 participants were originally recruited.
Total employee numbers were reduced from 1,180 to 975.
In addition, we removed items with negative item- total correlations.
In total, 75 participants took part in the study.
The decline in residence with children was most rapid during the period from 1940 to 1980, when more than half the total change took place.
The surprising behaviour of the surfaces of constant total pressure occurs entirely in the boundary layer.
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Collocations withtotal

total

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cumulative total
Extensive bibliographies are given for each chapter, running to a cumulative total of 40 pages.
overall total
Within each category, a number of indicators are employed, resulting in an overall total of sixty-two different measures for each case.
rainfall total
However, this higher annual rainfall total was mainly due to the occurrence of several large storms in the rainy season (responsible for 90% of the annual rainfall).
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