Definition of "amounting" []

• Present participle of amount. (verb)

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• "This week the Nationalist Party has offered constitutional proposals for a new South Africa, proposals that it describes as amounting to participatory democracy."
• "Of course there is a limit on what a large company like Lyric, in a large theater, with an annual list of titles amounting to only eight, could do to support adequately the broader reaches of the operatic repertoire."
• "U.S. coins amounting to more than $20 million were auctioned that night."