totting
Doing simple arithmetic
Totting is adding up numbers or amounts: She sat totting up the receipts at the end of the day.
The word is chiefly British.
To tot up a bill or score is to calculate the total.
Separately, totting refers to the practice of scavenging for salvageable items from refuse—a totter being someone who collects discarded goods to sell.
Gathering discarded or dead material
- salvagingRecovering discarded or damaged goods
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- pickingAct of selecting
- scroungingSeeking handouts resourcefully
rummaging · foraging · accumulating · amassing · secondhand · door-to-door · cart · barrow
Summing items systematically
- adding upSumming together
- reckoningSettlement of accounts
- summingAdding quantities together
- countingDetermining quantity sequentially
figuring · tabulating · computing · enumerating · accumulating · itemizing · numbering · quantifying
Improving discarded materials' value
- repurposingAdapting for different use
- reusingEmploying something once more
- salvageRecovering damaged goods
- scrapDiscarded bit or tussle
waste recovery · reclamation · sorting · sustainability · conservation · environmental · textiles · metals
scavenging
Gathering discarded or dead material
- salvagingRecovering discarded or damaged goods
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- pickingAct of selecting
scrounging · rummaging · foraging · accumulating · amassing · secondhand · door-to-door · cart · barrow · rags
tallying
Summing items systematically
counting · figuring · tabulating · computing · enumerating · accumulating · itemizing · numbering · quantifying · arithmetic
upcycling
Improving discarded materials' value
- repurposingAdapting for different use
- reusingEmploying something once more
- salvageRecovering damaged goods
scrap · waste recovery · reclamation · sorting · sustainability · conservation · environmental · textiles · metals · paper
- scavengingscavenging, rummage, foraging, forage, salvage
tottingsubtracting
Removing quantity from another
deducting · taking away · minusing · reducing · diminishing
tottingdividing
Separating into parts
dispersing · distributing · scattering · splitting · breaking down
tottingdiscarding
Removing what's unwanted
disposing · throwing away · junking · dumping · trashing
- totting upAdding amounts together
total, totally, tote, tot, totality, totals, totaling, tots, totalled