Usually means: Calculate the total sum numerically.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. add up: Merriam-Webster
  2. add up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. add up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. add up: Vocabulary.com
  5. add (sth) up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. add up: Wiktionary
  7. add up: Dictionary.com
  8. add up: Rhymezone
  9. add up: Phrasal Verb Page
  10. add up: FreeDictionary.org
  11. add up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. add up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. add up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  14. add up: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. add up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. add up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. add up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. add up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (add up)

verb:  (transitive, of a numerical amount) To take the sum of; to total.
verb:  (intransitive) To accumulate; to amount to.
verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent.

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