figure up

Idioms  

1. Calculate, total, as in Please figure up just how many feet of lumber we need. [Late 1800s]

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figure up

More than 6,200 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year, with the figure up by nearly a quarter compared to the same period the year before.

From BBC ● May 9, 2024

The company bumps this figure up a little based on factors like total items and distance.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2023

Boeing now has 510 net new firm orders for the year and older orders previously labeled uncertain but now restored to the backlog bumps that figure up to 737 orders through August.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2023

Twenty years ago, most Americans saw Silicon Valley as liberating; now it seems to have gone from the hammer-wielding woman in that famous “1984” Apple commercial to the Big Brother figure up on the screen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2018

Chucha stood this brown figure up on Carla's vanity.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez