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Discover LudwigThe phrase "tot up" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to add up or calculate a total. It is often used in informal or conversational language, but can also be used in formal writing. Example: After a week of shopping, I need to tot up my expenses to see if I stayed within my budget.
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tot up
verb
To calculate the sum of a number of numbers or quantities.
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If you tot up all his rounds here, he's -68.
All that remains now is to tot up the legal bills.
Just don't even try to tot up the number of opponents he has left behind him.
I'll come back in a few days to tot up the totals.
It doesn't take Tom Shanklin long to tot up the trophies of his rugby career.
You can't just tot up the body count among civil servants and declare the job done.
That detector will tot up their energy and, just possibly, find that there is some missing.
The cost of the systems themselves can tot up to $3m.
We will tot up the number of comments and announce a winner, hopefully before 2014.
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There is a clarity, almost a purity, to the win-or-lose, gold-silver-bronze, the daily tot-up of medals.
"I have no idea," he said, "but, I mean, too many times because I lost my licence on cumulative points and tot-up".
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