money supply
[ Cusually plural ]
small stones used in building:
Volumes of aggregates, cement, and concrete used in Britain will rise this year.
 in (the) aggregate
in total, after different prices, amounts, etc. have been added together:
In aggregate, the top 30 listed companies tend to get more money back from the government than they pay in tax.
aggregate
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈæɡrɪɡət/us
added together to make a total amount, price, etc.:
The report scores each health plan for dozens of individual measures, and makes state and regional aggregate data available to the media.
aggregate amount/figure/valueAggregate figures for the euro mask big differences among member states.
aggregate demand/supply/salesPre-tax profits fell 17% on falling aggregate sales.
aggregate
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈæɡrɪɡeɪt/us
to add different prices, amounts, etc. in order to get a total:
The company did $15.6 million in business with the federal government last year, according to data aggregated by OMB Watch.
to combine different products or services and sell them together:
Mobile and satellite communications systems aggregate a range of services such as telephony, data transmission, and internet distribution.

Examples of aggregate

aggregate
The clustered chromosomes aggregated very closely and irregularly, whereas normal ones were arranged on the equatorial plane in a circle at regular intervals.
The second series of experiments was designed to test the effects of ploidy and involved aggregating a big diploid cell with a big tetraploid cell.
The overall magnitude of visual input enhancement was addressed by calculating and aggregating effect size d values.
The microenvironment created by non-blocking embryos in aggregates may rescue blocking embryos via cell-embryo adherent contacts.
The microenvironment created by nonblocking embryos in aggregates may rescue blocking embryos via cell-embryo adherent contacts.
The results are roughly the same using either individual or aggregated data for each country.
Political institutions and procedures provide means by which various kinds of information can be aggregated, thus forming vital channels of communication.
To do so history still needs to find ways of aggregating, not just particularizing, its subjects.
How is feedback aggregated so that it can be useful to participants in their trusting decisions?
Separate target-participants may be replaced by their aggregates when they equilibriate on a timescale at least as fast as the timescale of the problem itself.
Large nuclei contained bulky heterochromatin aggregates and distinct nucleoli.
The stability of transmembrane aggregates of simple proteins is often only marginal and can therefore be regulated by environmental signals or small sequence modifications.
Various methods of aggregating ratings and incentivising agents to return ratings were discussed.
From a serial performance perspective, we gain performance by aggregating computations over like type.
There are also various applications to scene analysis, including a controversial attempt to analyse human faces as aggregates of a number of basic types.
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