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Collocations for total - verb

Total is used with these nouns as the subject:
arrears, debt, export, import, loan, prize, sale

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Total is used with these nouns as the object:
per cent

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Collocations for total - noun

ADJECTIVE

annual, daily, monthly
current
combined, cumulative, grand, overall, sum
His two goals give him a grand total of 32 for the season.
The sum total of my knowledge is not impressive.
estimated
running
Players keep a running total of the score.
final
high, huge (esp. BrE), record
a record total of victories
low
national, world
jobless (esp. BrE)
Britain's jobless total rose by 20 000 last month.
vote (AmE)
We had an early vote total of about 1.7 million people.
career (sports)
He won a career total of 19 gold medals.
point, run, win, etc. (sports)

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VERB + total

add up to, give, make, make up
Their earnings were €250, €300 and €420, giving a total of €970.
earn, receive
pay, spend
bring, take
A donation of $250 has been received, bringing the total to $3 750.
achieve, reach, win
The Greens achieved a total of 18 seats.

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total + VERB

rise
fall

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PREPOSITION

in total
In total, they spent 420 hours on the project.
out of a total of
180 vehicles out of a total of 900 examined were not roadworthy.
total of

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Collocations for total - adj.

Total is used with these nouns:
absence, acceptance, accuracy, agreement, allocation, amount, anarchy, annihilation, anonymity, area, asset, attendance, ban, bliss, blockade, bore, boycott, breakdown, budget, calorie, capacity, catastrophe, catch, chaos, charge, closure, cock-up, collapse, command, commitment, concentration, confidence, confidentiality, confusion, consumption, control, conviction, cost, count, darkness, debt, dedication, defeat, demand, dependence, despair, destruction, devastation, devotion, disagreement, disappearance, disappointment, disarmament, disarray, disaster, disbelief, disgust, disintegration, disregard, disrespect, dividend, dominance, domination, duration, earnings, eclipse, electorate, embargo, embarrassment, employment, enrolment, exclusion, exemption, exhaustion, expenditure, expense, export, extinction, failure, faith, fantasy, farce, fat, flop, fool, freak, freedom, freeze, hell, honesty, humiliation, idiot, ignorance, immunity, impact, import, inability, inadequacy, income, increase, independence, indifference, innocence, insanity, intake, isolation, jerk, lack, length, lie, loser, loss, loyalty, madness, mark, mastery, mess, misunderstanding, monopoly, mystery, myth, neglect, nightmare, nonsense, novice, number, obedience, oblivion, obscurity, opposite, outlay, output, package, panic, percentage, picture, population, privacy, proceeds, profit, prohibition, receipt, reconstruction, rejection, relaxation, reliance, removal, renovation, responsibility, return, revenue, reversal, rubbish, sale, sample, saving, score, seclusion, secrecy, separation, shock, silence, sincerity, size, solitude, spending, standstill, stranger, submission, success, sum, supply, support, suppression, supremacy, surprise, surrender, time, transformation, trust, turnover, value, victory, volume, war, waste, wealth, weight, width, withdrawal, workforce, wreck

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