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English / phrasal verb

add up

MEANING IN ENGLISH

To make logical sense or be mathematically consistent, especially regarding presentation data.

In context

01

During an investor pitch, make sure all your financial projections add up perfectly.

02

The audience remained skeptical because the speaker's statistics simply did not add up.

Synonyms

make sense,hold water,tally

Antonyms

fall apart,contradict,make no sense

Collocations

numbers add up,facts add up,simply doesn't add up

Sources

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