sum
/sʌm/ noun A1- A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation. · The sum of 3 and 4 is 7.
- An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition). · We're learning about division, and the sums are tricky.
- A quantity of money. · a tidy sum· the sum of forty pounds
- A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the substance. · This is the sum of all the evidence in the case.· This is the sum and substance of his objections.
- A central idea or point; gist.
Plural sums
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone.
“But,” said the abbé, “I would speak to you of a large sum, amounting to five millions.”
“The very sum you named,” whispered the inspector in his turn.
Thus seven or eight hundred piastres were wanting to them both to make up the sum that Albert required.
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