Tot Up (Verb)
Meaning
Determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town".
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The grocery store clerk will tot up the costs of all these groceries.
- When deciding on a venue for the wedding, they had to tot up the total number of guests from both families.
- To determine the total population of the city, census workers had to tot up the population of each district.
- The accountant will tot up all the business expenses for the year to prepare the tax return.
- To calculate the total number of people attending the concert, organizers had to tot up the attendance from each of the separate venues.