Tote 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
- Surveyors tote up damage estimates to determine the total cost of relief efforts after a hurricane.
- Cities must tote up population numbers for census records.
- Research teams tote up the total number of infections to analyze and track a pandemic.
- Counters tote up the number of yes and no votes to determine election outcomes.
- Accountants will tote up last quarter's sales figures to assess company growth.