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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sum total
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Everything was lost; the entire sum total of human existence was gone for ever.
▪ In the orthodox view the illness is considered to be the sum total of the symptoms and signs which it produces.
▪ Is that the sum total of the charges against me?
▪ That was the sum total of my formal education for the craft.
▪ The sum total of data connected with metalworking is hardly a representative guide to such industry or exchange.
▪ The sum total of their daily offering of music in worship far exceeds that of the cathedrals.
▪ Without sounding exactly like anything else, however, its sum total was more a collection of echoes than a consistent voice.
WordNet
sum total

n. the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" [syn: sum, summation]

Usage examples of "sum total".

The sum total of all moholes is what I call the value-dark dimension.

The life of a man was to him of far less value than a numeral, especially when, by taking it away, he could increase the sum total of his own desires.

This sum total is composed of 1780 domus, or great houses of 46,602 insuloe, or plebeian habitations, (see Nardini, Roma Antica, l.