Definitions for amounts

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amounts a·mount

Spelling: [uh-mount]

IPA: /əˈmaʊnt/

Amounts is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 233 anagrams from letters in amounts (amnostu).

Definitions for amounts

noun

1. the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
2. the sum of the principal and interest of a loan.
3. quantity; measure:
4. the full effect, value, or significance.

verb (used without object)

1. to total; add (usually followed by to):
2. to reach, extend, or be equal in number, quantity, effect, etc.; be equivalent (usually followed by to):
3. to develop into; become (usually followed by to):

Origin of amounts

1250-1300; Middle English amounten, amunten Anglo-French amo(u)nter, amunter, Old French amonter literally, to go up, ascend, probably a- a-⁵ + monter (see

Examples for amounts

Only, just think what it amounts to—prying into the affairs of a stranger.

To McCain, that amounts to an American alliance with those countries, whether that was intentional or not.

Their "luck" with Chrysanthemums amounts almost to magic sometimes.

On failure, I shall empower some lawyer in your country to recover the amounts.

He entered the amounts in the "Ledger," and then returned to his seat.

Let us citizens stress this and once again do nothing or so little that it amounts to nothing.

You accuse me of injustice—of what amounts to inhumanity—of cruelty?

The same goes for generalized “rules” you might hear about frequency and amounts.

Sometimes this amounts to nothing more than pressuring friends into listening to a song we desperately love.

All this, says the American former diplomat, amounts to a “day-by-day divestiture of government authority.”