Meaning & use

totalling

verb·Academic

Adding up to a specified overall amount; the British spelling of totaling.

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The invoice listed several charges totalling more than two thousand dollars.

Donations came in from across the country, totalling nearly a million pounds by the end of the drive.

A note on using this word

Totalling is the standard British and Australian spelling; American English usually uses a single l, as in totaling.

Words with a similar meaning

amounting tosumming to

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