amount (amounts plural & 3rd person present) (amounting present participle) (amounted past tense & past participle )
1 n-var The amount of something is how much there is, or how much you have, need, or get.
He needs that amount of money to survive...
2 verb If something amounts to a particular total, all the parts of it add up to that total.
Consumer spending on sports-related items amounted to £9.75 billion. V to amount amount to phrasal verb If you say that one thing amounts to something else, you consider the first thing to be the same as the second thing.