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Amount vs Underpayment - What's the difference?

amount | underpayment |

As nouns the difference between amount and underpayment

is that amount is the total, aggregate or sum of material not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English while underpayment is an insufficient payment.

As a verb amount

is to total or evaluate.

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

    underpayment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An insufficient payment
  • The act of making such a payment
  • The amount by which a payment is insufficient