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  • 51sum assured — UK US noun [C] (plural sums assured) INSURANCE ► a minimum amount that someone you have named in an insurance document will receive when you die: »In the event of your death, your dependents will receive the sum assured attached to the policy …

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  • 52sum of the years' digits method — UK US noun [S] (ABBREVIATION SYD, also sum of the digits method) ACCOUNTING ► a reduction in the recorded value of particular assets where the amount subtracted from their value each year gets less as the assets get older …

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  • 53sum total, the — noun the whole amount of something, especially when it is not very much: She asked me if I was well, and that was the sum total of our conversation …

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  • 54sum — [n] total aggregate, all, amount, body, bulk, entirety, entity, epitome, gross, integral, mass, quantity, reckoning, résumé, score, structure, summary, summation, sum total*, synopsis, system, tally, totality, value, whole, works*, worth;… …

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  • 55sum up — [v] form an opinion of; summarize close, conclude, condense, digest, epitomize, estimate, examine, get the measure of, inventory, put in a nutshell*, recapitulate, review, size up, sum, synopsize, total; concept 55 …

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  • 56sum total — n. 1. the total arrived at by adding up a sum or sums 2. everything involved or included …

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  • 57sum- — [sum] prefix SUB : used before m …

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  • 58sum-up — [sum′up΄] n. Informal the act or result of summarizing …

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  • 59sum|bul — «SUHM buhl, SUM bul», noun. 1. any one of several aromatic or medicinal plants, such as the East Indian spikenard. 2. the root of such a plant. 3. a root, used as a nerve tonic and anti spasmodic. ╂[< French sumbul < Arabic sunbul] …

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  • 60sum|ma cum lau|de — «SUM uhkum LOW duh; SUHM uh kuhm L dee», with the highest distinction. These words are added to the diploma of a student who has done unusually good academic work. ╂[< New Latin summa cum laude < Latin summā, feminine, ablative of summus… …

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