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amount
(redirected from amounted)

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amount to something
to be the same as something else. A decrease in student aid amounts to an increase in tuition fees. She thought he was wrong to take what amounts to a stand against greater freedom.
Related vocabulary: add up to something

amount to a hill of beans

to be of little importance. You are making yourself miserable over something that amounts to a hill of beans.
See also: bean, hill

amount to the same thing

to be nearly the same thing, after you consider it. She wanted him to suffer and she wanted to punish him, which amounts to the same thing.
See also: same, thing

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