add up
Calculate the total
Add up means to calculate a total: Add up the receipts and tell me what we spent.
Figuratively, it means to make sense or seem plausible: Something about his story doesn't add up.
Things that add up accumulate into significance: Small expenses add up quickly.
Addition's result
figure · count · enumerate · quantify · estimate · tabulate · calculate · work out
Be comprehensible or logical
- ring trueSeem authentic or credible
- hold waterBe logically defensible
- check outSettle up and leave
- stand to reasonBe logically self-evident
fit together · cohere · hang together · square · tally · correspond · compute
Steadiness or amount owed
- reconcileResolve a disagreement
- ledgerFinancial record book
- bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
- auditFormal accounts examination
verify · cross-check · double-check · accounts · figures · receipts · expenses · debits
sum
Addition's result
reckon · figure · count · enumerate · quantify · estimate · tabulate · calculate · work out · do the math
make sense
Be comprehensible or logical
- ring trueSeem authentic or credible
- hold waterBe logically defensible
- check outSettle up and leave
stand to reason · fit together · cohere · hang together · square · tally · correspond · compute
balance
Steadiness or amount owed
- reconcileResolve a disagreement
- ledgerFinancial record book
- bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
audit · verify · cross-check · double-check · accounts · figures · receipts · expenses · debits · credits
accrue
Increase by addition
snowball · escalate · compound · amass · collect · gather · rise · swell · balloon · surge
- math expressionsdo the math, crunch numbers, number crunching, number cruncher, napkin math
- totalssum, total, grand total, tally, subtotal
- gathering verbsgather, collect, accumulate, amass, compile
add updwindle
Decrease gradually over time
diminish · deplete · drain away · decrease · whittle down