GRAND TOTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grand total mean? 

• GRAND TOTAL (noun)
  The noun GRAND TOTAL has 1 sense:

1. the sum of the sums of several groups of numbers

  Familiarity information: GRAND TOTAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAND TOTAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sum of the sums of several groups of numbers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("grand total" is a kind of...):

amount; sum; total (a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers)

 Context examples 

And finally to be added, his pledges, plus interest, with the pawnbroker—watch, $5.50; overcoat, $5.50; wheel, $7.75; suit of clothes, $5.50 (60 % interest, but what did it matter?)—grand total, $56.10.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The record lasted over nearly twenty years, the amount of the separate entries growing larger as time went on, and at the end a grand total had been made out after five or six wrong additions, and these words appended, Bones, his pile.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)