tot up
B1 informal separable transitive
In simple words
To add up lots of small numbers or amounts to get a total.
Meanings
1 B1 informal
To add together a number of individual amounts to produce a final total.
"When she totted up all her monthly outgoings, she realised she was spending far too much."
Grammar: separable
2 B1 informal
To amount to a total when all items are added together.
"The repairs totted up to well over a thousand pounds."
Grammar: inseparable
Usage notes
Chiefly British English. Commonly used when totalling a bill, a list of costs, or points in a game. Also used in the expression 'tot up to' meaning to amount to a total. The origin relates to an archaic use of 'tot' as a verb meaning to add up.
Commonly used with
bill costs points score expenses debt
Forms
Base
tot up
I/you/we/they
3rd person
tots up
he/she/it
Past simple
toted up
yesterday
Past participle
toted up
have + pp
-ing form
toting up
continuous
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