amounting
uh-MOWN-ting/əˈmaʊntɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of amount.
Prosecutors accused the company's executives of conduct amounting to fraud.
Prosecutors filed charges amounting to fraud against the company's executives.
Note
Because amount is intransitive, its -ing form always runs through to and never takes a direct object or a passive: costs amount to a figure, but nothing is ever amounted. The form carries both live meanings, adding up (repairs amounting to thousands) and equaling in effect (conduct amounting to negligence). Both echo an obsolete sense, to go up or ascend, as if a sum climbed to its level.
amounting is a form of amount
amount, verb: To add up to or come to a total when the parts are combined. Full entry
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- amount → amounting: add -ing
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