sum betydelse and definition

Betydelse av sum på svenska

• 0 an amount of money:

  • Huge sums of money are spent on national defence.

  • He sold the house for a tidy (= large) sum.

  • humorous I worked for three whole weeks for which I received the princely (= very low) sum of $100.

• 1 the whole number or amount when two or more numbers or amounts have been added together:

  • The sum of 13 and 8 is 21.

  • The meeting was, in sum, a disaster.

  • And that's the sum of my knowledge on the subject!

• 2 a calculation, especially a simple one, using such processes as adding, taking away, multiplying, or dividing:

  • I remember how much I hated doing sums when I was at school.

• 3 a particular amount of money:

  • The sum involved in the sale was not reported.

• 4 a total found by the addition of two or more numbers:

  • The sum of seven and twelve is nineteen.

  • In sum, the American public did not perceive global warming as urgent.

• 5 an amount of money:

  • Share price slid by 1p to 142p fuelled by concerns that the company might offer too generous a sum for the proposed venture in India.

  • The sale of Germany's biggest commercial TV operator for an undisclosed sum follows a bidding contest.

  • Banks may not be prepared to open an account if the sum involved is too small.

  • large/huge/enormous sums Restrictions have been imposed by the government on the movement of large sums of money out of the country.

  • a small/modest/substantial sum A substantial sum has been set aside for litigation relating to the construction project.

  • an additional/cash/final sum The final sum an investor receives from a pension is dependent on the rate of investment growth.

  • vast/huge/considerable sums

  • a sum of $8/£2,000/€1.2m, etc. Legislation approved yesterday will raise a much-needed sum of £300,000 for use on the roads.

  • pay (out)/spend/invest a sum Deposits are non-recoverable cash sums paid just to reserve a property, with a further sum payable when contracts are exchanged.

  • earn/receive/owe a sum Victims of an explosion at a chemical works are set to receive large sums in compensation.

  • borrow/lend a sum First-time buyers are having to borrow huge sums to buy a home.

• 6 the number or amount that is the result of adding together two or more numbers or amounts:

  • sum of sth In 2006, the sum of all income for residents of Colorado rose by 6.5%.

• 7 a calculation that involves adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing numbers:

  • You need to do your sums before deciding whether you would benefit more from a fixed-rate or a tracker mortgage.

  • Amid the pressure to get their sums right, many funds have closed to new business.

• 8 the whole of something after all the different features or parts of it are considered:

  • the sum of sth We believe that the sum of our business principles maximizes our chances of success.

• 9 more powerful, effective, etc. as a whole than you would think if you considered the different features or parts that it consists of:

  • The claimed logic of this latest merger is that the whole will be more than the sum of the parts.

• 10 used at the end of a report or discussion before giving a short description of the main ideas or facts:

  • We're looking, in sum, for a major player who believes in newspapers as a serious business.

• 11 a large amount of money:

  • She sold her story to the tabloids for a princely sum.

  • We have made a tidy sum on our investments.

• 12 used in a humorous way to refer to an unexpectedly small amount of money:

  • The book was first published in the UK in 1972 for the princely sum of 40p.