amount

amount: amount [{{t}}ə'maʊnt]

noun

(a) (quantity) quantité f;

∎ great or large amounts of money beaucoup d'argent;

∎ a massive amount of time énormément de temps;

∎ in small/large amounts en petites/grandes quantités;

∎ no amount of talking can bring him back on peut lui parler tant qu'on veut, ça ne le fera pas revenir;

∎ I have a certain amount of respect for them j'ai un certain respect pour eux;

∎ a modest amount une quantité modeste;

∎ any amount of des quantités de, énormément de;

∎ that shop has any amount of books il y a des masses de livres dans ce magasin;

∎ you'll have any amount of time for reading on holiday tu auras tout ton temps pour lire pendant les vacances

(b) (sum, total) montant m, total m; (of money) somme f;

∎ do you have the exact amount? avez-vous le compte (exact)?;

∎ she billed us for the amount of £50 elle nous a présenté une facture d'un montant de ou qui se montait à 50 livres;

∎ you're in credit to the amount of £100 vous avez un crédit de 100 livres;

∎ please find enclosed a cheque to the amount of $100 veuillez trouver ci-joint un chèque (d'un montant) de 100 dollars;

∎ amount due (on bill) montant a régler;

∎ no amount (of money) could make up for what I've lost rien ne pourrait compenser ce que j'ai perdu;

∎ {{}}Accountancy{{}} amount brought forward montant m à reporter

➲ amount to inseparable transitive verb

(a) (total) se monter à, s'élever à;

∎ he left debts amounting to over £1,800 il a laissé des dettes qui s'élèvent ou se montent à plus de 1800 livres;

∎ profits last year amounted to several million dollars les bénéfices pour l'année dernière se chiffrent à plusieurs millions de dollars;

∎ after tax it doesn't amount to much après impôts ça ne représente pas grand-chose;

∎ he'll never amount to much il ne fera jamais grand-chose

(b) (be equivalent to)

∎ it amounts to something not far short of stealing c'est pratiquement du vol;

∎ it amounts to the same thing cela revient au même;

∎ what his speech amounts to is an attack on democracy en fait, avec ce discours, il attaque la démocratie

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