add up
Verb
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Verb
add up
- (transitive) To take a sum.
- Add up the prices and find out how much it will cost.
- (intransitive) To accumulate; to amount to.
- If you can save even a couple of dollars per day, it will add up to a lot over a year.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent.
- His story just doesn't add up. Why would he have been at the restaurant the day before the event?
- (take a sum) sum up, tally; see also Thesaurus:summate
- (amount to) accrue, mount up; see also Thesaurus:accumulate
- (make sense) compute, hang together
- French: additionner
- French: faire
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