amounting

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This whole thread, which was extraordinarily stupid from the get go, is amounting to Europeans explaining the U.

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Quick take

(intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.

Meaning at a glance

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verb

(intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.

verb

(intransitive, followed by to) To be the tantamount to; to reach up to the level of.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for amounting.

verb

(intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.

verb

(intransitive, followed by to) To be the tantamount to; to reach up to the level of.

Example sentences

This whole thread, which was extraordinarily stupid from the get go, is amounting to Europeans explaining the U.

If they've seized 65% of your paycheck already and it's still not enough, isn't this basically amounting to debtors' prison?

Those fees have accumulated in a fund, currently amounting to over $30 billion.

The companies/investors that buy them have real value and expect to generate enough revenue from the acquisitions amounting at least to the acquired value.

Do you truly believe that time by the relevant bodies attempting to regulate water usage amounting to less than 0.001% was time well spent?

Every damn bit doesn't help when you spend the entire political capital attempting to secure gains amounting to a few percent of the problem.

Take Ukraine (broke, 45 million people and at war with Russia), who has a two year IMF lifeline amounting to $27 billion, most of it in form of loans.

I don't have a number for 2013, but in 2011 the mentioned law firm alone sent 70000 cease and desist letters amounting 90 million Euro.

It's not relevant for less crowded areas but friends who live in NYC (or SF, without rent control) often see 20%+ increases amounting to at least a few hundred dollars per month.

Here's an EPA-citing source claiming 1 Gt coal -> 1.8 Gt CO2e, and 3.5 Gt used by China in 2011, the latter amounting to ~6.5 Gt CO2e, and ~20% of world emissions that year.

(Am thinking particularly of an article he wrote which condemned Lisp for reasons amounting to little more than his ignorance, but which cited Teach-Lisp in a not-friendly light...

[2] Savings amounting to a few thousand dollars.

Quote examples

An article amounting to "read more books, watch more movies, listen to more podcasts" gets 29 votes?

Null means "without value, effect, consequence, or significance; being or amounting to nothing".

And "unambiguously legal" is overselling the point: PPD-20 includes offensive capabilities amounting to acts of war -- which would presumably be illegal absent congressional approval.

We already see the fraud of the private "for profit" universities -- Heald (for instance) -- making promises, taking money, and not amounting to much.