amount

amount to

verb

Definition of AMOUNT

1

to have a total of <the expenses of the trip amounted to nearly double what we'd budgeted for>

Synonyms add up (to), aggregate, come (to), count (up to), number, sum (to or into), total

Related Words average, equal, measure, reach; compose, comprise, constitute, make up

Phrases clock in at

2

to be the same in meaning or effect <it makes no difference whether you're going to the game or the movies, for it amounts to the same thing—that you can't babysit>

Synonyms add up (to), come (to), correspond (to), emulate, equal

Related Words approach, match, measure (up), meet, rival, touch; connote, denote, express, import, mean, signify, smack (of), spell, suggest