sum total

complete numerical total: the sum total of my savings.

essence; substance: The sum total of research in the field.

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Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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A cook, a butler, and a valet were the sum-total of his retinue.
The Lure of the Mask|Harold MacGrath
The advantages are sideways, so to say; a whole family can work at the same time, and the sum-total becomes considerable.
Field and Hedgerow|Richard Jefferies
For him business means the sum-total of varieties; as Cousin would say, the unity of specialties.
The Firm of Nucingen|Honore de Balzac
Twenty months passed in a school in Illinois constituted the sum-total of his schooling.
Indian Legends of Minnesota|Various

Now the sum-total of this, in regard to story-writing, is the fact that fully 80 per cent.
The Lure of the Pen|Flora Klickmann

The entirety, everything, as in I spent all day in the kitchen and the sum total of my efforts is this cake. [Mid-1600s]