total

[US]/'təʊt(ə)l/
[UK]/'totl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. complete or absolute
vt. to reach a sum
vi. to add up
n. a sum or whole amount

Phrases & Collocations

total cost

total revenue

total number

total amount

in total

a total of

total area

total investment

total output

total value

total nitrogen

total energy

total quality management

total assets

total length

total production

total station

total pressure

total phosphorus

total volume

sum total

Example Sentences

The party was a total washout.

the total cost is unknowable.

the total volume of silt

total concentration; a total effort; a total fool.

my perm is a total disaster.

the task is to guesstimate the total vote.

a sixth of the total population.

the European Community's total tonnage.

the total value of industrial output

have a total disregard for rank

the path of a total eclipse

It totals to three dollars.

the total cost. partial

He is a total incompetent.

The total shortage was $500.

I want total silence.

The total was in the neighborhood of 100 pounds.

Please total all the expenditures.

the total debits should equal the total credits.

Real-world Examples

Please give me a breakdown of your income tax totals.

Source: IELTS vocabulary example sentences

All of that is total fabrication (and total fabrication is the fiction-writer's purest delight) .

Source: Stephen King on Writing

Your total disregard for other people's feelings?

Source: Friends Season 9

This is a lie, it's a total lie.

Source: TED 2019 Annual Conference (Bilingual)

We have a total of 5,775 destroyed buildings.

Source: VOA Standard English - Middle East

That gave him a total of two hundred seventy-one.

Source: VOA Special September 2020 Collection

They were fined a total of 460 million dollars.

Source: BBC Listening Collection July 2014

You may get a total of four or five questions.

Source: Tips for IELTS Speaking.

In fact, together they owed a total of 27 dollars.

Source: Global Slow English

The export volume reached a total of 20 million dollars.

Source: New Concept English: Vocabulary On-the-Go, Book 2.

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