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noun [C, U]
a sum of money: The insurance company will refund any amount due to you. ◆ You will receive a bill for the full amount. ◆ Small amounts will be paid in cash.
~ (of sth) (used especially with uncountable nouns) a quantity of sth: an amount of time / money / information ◆ We've had an enormous amount of help from people. ◆ The server is designed to store huge amounts of data.
Idioms: any amount of sth a large quantity of sth: There's been any amount of research into the subject.
no amount of sth used for saying that sth will have no effect: No amount of encouragement would make him jump into the pool.
verb
Phrasal Verbs: amount to sth
to add up to sth; to make sth as a total: His earnings are said to amount to £300 000 per annum. ◆ They gave me some help in the beginning but it did not amount to much (= they did not give me much help).
to be equal to or the same as sth: Her answer amounted to a complete refusal. ◆ Their actions amount to a breach of contract. ◆ We were jailed for a week-well, confined to quarters, but it amounted to the same thing.

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