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.
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He needs that amount of money to survive..., I still do a certain amount of work for them..., Postal money orders are available in amounts up to $700.
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.
The confessions were obtained by what amounts to torture. V P n