total

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ annual, daily, monthly

▪ current

▪ combined, cumulative, grand, overall, sum

▪

His two goals give him a grand total of 32 for the season.

▪

The sum total of my knowledge is not impressive.

▪ estimated

▪ running

▪

Players keep a running total of the score.

▪ final

▪ high, huge (esp. BrE), record

▪

a record total of victories

▪ low

▪ national, world

▪ jobless (esp. BrE)

▪

Britain's jobless total rose by 20 000 last month.

▪ vote (AmE)

▪

We had an early vote total of about 1.7 million people.

▪ career (sports)

▪

He won a career total of 19 gold medals.

▪ point, run, win, etc. (sports)

VERB + TOTAL

▪ add up to, give, make, make up

▪

Their earnings were €250, €300 and €420, giving a total of €970.

▪ earn, receive

▪ pay, spend

▪ bring, take

▪

A donation of $250 has been received, bringing the total to $3 750.

▪ achieve, reach, win

▪

The Greens achieved a total of 18 seats.

TOTAL + VERB

▪ rise

▪ fall

PREPOSITION

▪ in total

▪

In total, they spent 420 hours on the project.

▪ out of a total of

▪

180 vehicles out of a total of 900 examined were not roadworthy.

▪ total of

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verb

Total is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑arrears, ↑debt, ↑export, ↑import, ↑loan, ↑prize, ↑sale

Total is used with these nouns as the object: ↑per cent

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adj.

Total is used with these nouns: ↑absence, ↑acceptance, ↑accuracy, ↑agreement, ↑allocation, ↑amount, ↑anarchy, ↑annihilation, ↑anonymity, ↑area, ↑asset, ↑attendance, ↑ban, ↑bliss, ↑blockade, ↑bore, ↑boycott, ↑breakdown, ↑budget, ↑calorie, ↑capacity, ↑catastrophe, ↑catch, ↑chaos, ↑charge, ↑closure, ↑cock-up, ↑collapse, ↑command, ↑commitment, ↑concentration, ↑confidence, ↑confidentiality, ↑confusion, ↑consumption, ↑control, ↑conviction, ↑cost, ↑count, ↑darkness, ↑debt, ↑dedication, ↑defeat, ↑demand, ↑dependence, ↑despair, ↑destruction, ↑devastation, ↑devotion, ↑disagreement, ↑disappearance, ↑disappointment, ↑disarmament, ↑disarray, ↑disaster, ↑disbelief, ↑disgust, ↑disintegration, ↑disregard, ↑disrespect, ↑dividend, ↑dominance, ↑domination, ↑duration, ↑earnings, ↑eclipse, ↑electorate, ↑embargo, ↑embarrassment, ↑employment, ↑enrolment, ↑exclusion, ↑exemption, ↑exhaustion, ↑expenditure, ↑expense, ↑export, ↑extinction, ↑failure, ↑faith, ↑fantasy, ↑farce, ↑fat, ↑flop, ↑fool, ↑freak, ↑freedom, ↑freeze, ↑hell, ↑honesty, ↑humiliation, ↑idiot, ↑ignorance, ↑immunity, ↑impact, ↑import, ↑inability, ↑inadequacy, ↑income, ↑increase, ↑independence, ↑indifference, ↑innocence, ↑insanity, ↑intake, ↑isolation, ↑jerk, ↑lack, ↑length, ↑lie, ↑loser, ↑loss, ↑loyalty, ↑madness, ↑mark, ↑mastery, ↑mess, ↑misunderstanding, ↑monopoly, ↑mystery, ↑myth, ↑neglect, ↑nightmare, ↑nonsense, ↑novice, ↑number, ↑obedience, ↑oblivion, ↑obscurity, ↑opposite, ↑outlay, ↑output, ↑package, ↑panic, ↑percentage, ↑picture, ↑population, ↑privacy, ↑proceeds, ↑profit, ↑prohibition, ↑receipt, ↑reconstruction, ↑rejection, ↑relaxation, ↑reliance, ↑removal, ↑renovation, ↑responsibility, ↑return, ↑revenue, ↑reversal, ↑rubbish, ↑sale, ↑sample, ↑saving, ↑score, ↑seclusion, ↑secrecy, ↑separation, ↑shock, ↑silence, ↑sincerity, ↑size, ↑solitude, ↑spending, ↑standstill, ↑stranger, ↑submission, ↑success, ↑sum, ↑supply, ↑support, ↑suppression, ↑supremacy, ↑surprise, ↑surrender, ↑time, ↑transformation, ↑trust, ↑turnover, ↑value, ↑victory, ↑volume, ↑war, ↑waste, ↑wealth, ↑weight, ↑width, ↑withdrawal, ↑workforce, ↑wreck