aggregate

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AMR's Total Debt, which it defines as the aggregate of its long-term debt, capital lease obligations, the principal amount of airport facility tax-exempt bonds, and the present value of aircraft operating lease obligations, was $15.1 billion at the end of the fourth quarter of

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  1. adjective Constituting or amounting to a whole; total: aggregate sales in that market.
  2. adjective Botany Crowded or massed into a dense cluster.
  3. adjective Composed of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means.
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  • Smith's aggregate is the third best of all time in a calender, behind Mohammed Yousuf's 1788 amassed in 2006 and Sir Viv Richards '1710 made in 1976. —  IOL: News
  • Professor Olson adds: In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won by Republicans was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. —  Home
  • Most purchases will be presented in the aggregate, answering questions such as "How much business is the state doing with Office Depot?" —  Denver Business News - Local Denver News | Denver Business Journal
  • Objectively and in the aggregate, the new spending proposals are modestly bold and not the end to the world as we know it. —  The Moderate Voice
  • "For the first time in 10 years, I can actually say that stocks in the aggregate are cheap," he said. —  Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com
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  1. Middle English aggregat, from Latin aggregātus, past participle of aggregāre, to add to : ad-, ad- + gregāre, to collect (from grex, greg-, flock; see ger- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Latin aggregatus, past participle of aggregare, adgregare, lead to a flock, add to, from ad, to, + gregare, collect into a flock, from grex (greg-), a flock: see gregarious. Cf. congregate, segregate.
  2. from Latin aggregatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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