noun, verb
noun [C,U]
1 a sum of money:
The insurance company will refund any amount due to you. * You will receive a bill for the full amount. * Small amounts will be paid in cash.
2 ~ (of sth) (used especially with uncountable nouns) a quantity of sth:
an amount of time / money / information * We've had an enormous amount of help from people. * The server is designed to store huge amounts of data.
IDIOMS
any amount of sth a large quantity of sth:
There's been any amount of research into the subject.
no amount of sth used for saying that sth will have no effect:
No amount of encouragement would make him jump into the pool.
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
amount to sth
1 to add up to sth; to make sth as a total:
His earnings are said to amount to ｣300000 per annum. * They gave me some help in the beginning but it did not amount to much (= they did not give me much help).
2 to be equal to or the same as sth:
Her answer amounted to a complete refusal. * Their actions amount to a breach of contract. * We were jailed for a week-well, confined to quarters, but it amounted to the same thing.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for amount is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is amount a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, amount is tagged as verb.
Does amount appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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