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footing (up)

verb

Definition of footing (up)

present participle of foot (up)

as in adding

to combine (numbers) into a single sum please foot up your traveling expenses from this past month

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The Sun’s meeting with retrograde Mercury favors revisiting the purpose before adding another task.

— Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 4 Nov. 2026
Drones, missiles and other relatively inexpensive weapons are adding new demands to shipboard defenses.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026

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