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WordBand 5.5–6.5Core (NGSL)
sum
/sʌm/
noun1 of 2
amount when all is added together; total
- “She deposited a large sum of money in the bank.”Tatoeba
- “The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”Tatoeba
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verb2 of 2
To add together.
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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)