Amount \A*mount"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Amounted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Amounting}.] [OF. amonter to increase, advance, ascend, fr. amont (equiv. to L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See {Mount}, n.] 1. To go up; to ascend. [Obs.]
So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. --Spenser.
2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.
3. To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.
Amount \A*mount"\, v. t. To signify; to amount to. [Obs.]
Amount \A*mount"\, n. 1. The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.
2. The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.
The whole amount of that enormous fame. --Pope.
The 1991 request for the space station represents a 36 percent, or $699 million, increase over the 1990 amount.
The charges amount to "a house of cards delicately balanced on a series of unprecedented reinterpretations of House rules," they argued.
The report said corn moisture and the amount of damaged kernels decreased, but there was a small increase reported in broken corn and the presence of foreign material.
The company didn't say how much extra production there would be but dealers estimated that it would amount to an additional 150,000 ounces, which would bring the company's annual output to 1.4 million ounces.
Dukakis, for his part, claims he has cut a record amount in taxes.
The huge amount of damages was based on Pennzoil's assertion that $7.53 billion would be needed to drill for as much oil as it would have acquired in the deal with Getty.
The capital gains plan approved Thursday would cut the current maximum rate of 33 percent to 19.6 percent for 27 months. Thereafter, the rate would rise to 28 percent but any gains would be taxed only on the amount exceeding the annual inflation rate.
Preferred creditors are thought to be owed about Pounds 800,000, and unsecured creditors a similar amount.
He also played down the seriousness of the decline, claiming that existing reserves still amount to the equivalent of eight months worth of exports.
The total amount of aid was not known.
The legislation provides only about one-fifth of the amount requested by the administration for a manned space station.
Under terms of the plan, the company would exchange up to $530 million in principal amount of outstanding debt for new debt securities and common stock.
A tremendous amount (of future research) will be built on it."
Says the J.K. Lasser Institute in its annual publication Your Income Tax: "If your return is audited, you will have to prove that the casualty occurred and the amount of the loss.
Net sales of US mutual funds this year have reached Dollars 180bn, he says; during the last two months, the amount of new cash flowing into foreign funds has exceeded Dollars 1bn a week.
This year's shipments, primarily from Australia and New Zealand but also more than a dozen other countries, are forecast at 2.08 billion pounds, nearly twice the amount of exports.
The House education and labor committee approved a measure by Rep. Tony Hall, D-Ohio, to let states borrow a greater amount of next year's WIC appropriation to cover current shortages.
These are a particular triumph of actuarial science. The life office agrees to increase the amount you receive each year by the rate of increase in the retail prices index.
The Treasury's benchmark 30-year bond gained nearly a quarter of a point, or more than $2.50 for each $1,000 face amount.
An earlier edition incorrectly said it borrowed the full amount.
The board rejected Davis' bid and his subsequent tender offer for the same amount, but it invited him to submit a higher bid in a process that quickly attracted financially troubled Pan Am.
"Last night, we were going through a fair amount of anxiety about how we were going to pay our next round of bills," he says.
With less stock to go around, a given amount of demand naturally tended to push stock prices higher.
The bank also has agreed that $330 million of that amount will be available as a bridge loan, the statement said.
Following strong demand, the amount was quickly increased to Pounds 200m from the original Pounds 150m. NatWest Capital Markets and Salomon Brothers International jointly arranged the issue.
An amazing amount of people thought this was a crummy idea or that I and the others supporting it were silly.
As in "The Red Line," the composer incorporates a cynical, Brechtian pop-music ballad; a fair amount of spoken, or nearspoken, dialogue; and poignant moments of lyricism amid the general moral and musical chaos.
There is no question of the full amount of VAT not being refunded in appropriate cases.
Instead of a flat 10% penalty on the amount due, a new law substitutes penalties ranging from 2% to 10%, depending on how late the payment is made.
Creditors holding about $75 million face amount of unsecured debt would receive 85% of Care's equity; the rest would be retained by existing shareholders.