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Amount vs Subtotal - What's the difference?

amount | subtotal |

As nouns the difference between amount and subtotal

is that amount is the total, aggregate or sum of material not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English while subtotal is the total for a part of a list of numbers being summed.

As verbs the difference between amount and subtotal

is that amount is to total or evaluate while subtotal is to calculate a subtotal.

As an adjective subtotal is

less than total; partial.

amount

English

(Quantity)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
  • A quantity or volume.
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  • The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
  • * 2001 , Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education , page 195:
    • The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.

    Derived terms

    * principal amount * notional amount

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To total or evaluate.
    • It amounts to three dollars and change.
  • To be the same as or equivalent to.
    • He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
    His response amounted to gross insubordination
  • (obsolete) To go up; to ascend.
  • * Spenser
    • So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.

    Derived terms

    * amount to

    See also

    * extent * magnitude * measurement * number * quantity * size

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    subtotal

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The total for a part of a list of numbers being summed.

    • Verb

  • To calculate a .

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Less than total; partial.
  • * 2007 , Caroline Bunker Rosdahl, Mary T. Kowalski, Textbook of Basic Nursing (page 1184)
    • A subtotal thyroidectomy usually prevents the recurrence of hyperthyroidism because only enough of the gland is left to maintain normal function.
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