Sum Money Sʌm I Noun Fined Large Judge

• you will be fined the sum of £200.
• a large sum of money
• the judge awarded them an undisclosed six-figure sum in damages.
• huge sums have been invested in this project.

sum

1. an amount of money
• SEE ALSO capital sum
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• You will be fined the sum of £200.
• a large sum of money
• The judge awarded them an undisclosed six-figure sum in damages.
• Huge sums have been invested in this project.
• The team has raised substantial sums for local charities.

Extra Examples

• £200 was an astronomical sum of money in 1547.
• For his first book he received the princely sum of $400.
• He joined the club two years ago for a record sum.
• It seemed an absurdly high sum to pay for a coat.
• Some of the paintings should fetch a tidy sum at today's auction.
• The charity pays a nominal sum to lease the premises.
• The gangsters offered him a sum equivalent to a whole year's earnings.
• The landlord has the right to recover any sums payable under this lease.
• We eventually agreed a sum and I gave him a cheque.
• You will have to go to court to recover these sums.
• a project that cost vast sums of public money
2. the number you get when you add two or more numbers together
• The sum of 7 and 12 is 19.
• Calculate the sum of the following figures.
3. all of something, especially when you think that it is not very much
• This is the sum of my achievements so far.
4. a simple problem that involves calculating numbers
• to do a sum in your head
• I was good at sums at school.
• If I've got my sums right, I should be able to afford the rent.

Extra Examples

• I did a quick sum to work out how much it would cost.
• The company got its sums wrong when estimating how many customers it would attract.
5. to be better or more effective as a group than you would think just by looking at the individual members of the group
• The team is greater than the sum of its parts.
6. used to introduce a short statement of the main points of a discussion, speech, etc.
• In sum, we have no chance of winning the case.

Word Origin

• Middle English: via Old French from Latin summa ‘main part, sum total’, feminine of summus ‘highest’.