{
    "term": "sum",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an amount of money",
            "sensetop": "sum (of something)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You will be fined the sum of £200."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **large sum of money**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The judge awarded them an **undisclosed** six-figure **sum** in damages."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Huge sums** have been invested in this project."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The team has raised **substantial sums** for local charities."
                },
                {
                    "text": "£200 was an astronomical sum of money in 1547."
                },
                {
                    "text": "For his first book he received the princely sum of $400."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He joined the club two years ago for a record sum."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It seemed an absurdly high sum to pay for a coat."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some of the paintings should fetch a tidy sum at today's auction."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The charity pays a nominal sum to lease the premises."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The gangsters offered him a sum equivalent to a whole year's earnings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The landlord has the right to recover any sums payable under this lease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We eventually agreed a sum and I gave him a cheque."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You will have to go to court to recover these sums."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a project that cost vast sums of public money"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["considerable", "generous", "good"],
                "verb + sum": ["borrow", "earn", "fetch"],
                "sum + verb": ["be due", "be payable", "be equal to something"],
                "phrases": ["a sum of money"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the number you get when you add two or more numbers together",
            "sensetop": "sum (of something)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The sum of 7 and 12 is 19."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Calculate the sum of the following figures."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Maths and measurement"],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + sum": ["calculate", "find", "work out"],
                "preposition": ["sum of"],
                "phrases": ["greater, less, more, etc. than the sum of its/​the parts"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "all of something, especially when you think that it is not very much",
            "sensetop": "the sum of something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This is the sum of my achievements so far."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a simple problem that involves calculating numbers",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **do a sum** in your head"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was good at sums at school."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If I've got my sums right, I should be able to afford the rent."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I did a quick sum to work out how much it would cost."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company got its sums wrong when estimating how many customers it would attract."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["difficult", "easy"],
                "verb + sum": ["do"],
                "phrases": ["get your sums right/​wrong"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be better or more effective as a group than you would think just by looking at the individual members of the group",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The team is greater than the sum of its parts."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to introduce a short statement of the main points of a discussion, speech, etc.",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "In sum, we have no chance of winning the case."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sʌm/",
                "audio": "su/sum/sum__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sʌm/",
                "audio": "su/sum/sum__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: via Old French from Latin summa ‘main part, sum total’, feminine of summus ‘highest’."
}