tot up

English

From total.

tot up (third-person singular simple present tots up, present participle totting up, simple past and past participle totted up)

(transitive) To calculate the sum of a number of numbers or quantities.
As soon as Debbie can tot up the scores, we'll know who won.
- 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 1, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation‎, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18:
  Later, when Cora got a chance to tot up her sins for the day, she would vaguely recall hearing the protestors suddenly grow quiet and whisper to each other.
(British, intransitive, usually with to) To add up (to).
The bill tots up to 35 euros.

to calculate the sum of

to add up to

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