amount

noun

OPAL WOPAL S

/əˈmaʊnt/

[countable, uncountable]Idioms

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(used especially with uncountable nouns) a quantity of something
- I was amazed at the amount he could eat.
- Mix the colours in equal amounts.
- amount of something an amount of money/information/work/time
- A certain amount of time has already been spent on the project.
- The server is designed to store huge amounts of data.
- Try to reduce the amount of energy and water you use at home.
- Faculty should increase the amount and quality of feedback they provide.
Amount is most often used with uncountable nouns: an amount of cash/space/material/food It is also sometimes used with countable nouns, especially in spoken or informal English: You're competing with a massive amount of people. However, some people consider that this is not correct and prefer to use number with countable nouns: You're competing with a very large number of people.
Extra Examples
- We've had an enormous amount of help from people.
- There was a large increase in the amount of money invested in March and April.
- The sauce has just the right amount of salt.
- He drank copious amounts of beer.
- Tap water also contains varying amounts of rust and grit.
- There was a fair amount of traffic on the roads.
- You have a certain amount of freedom to explore new techniques.
- They want to limit the amount of cash available.
- The amount of reclaimed glass used in industry has doubled in the last five years.
- The average amount of pocket money received by teenagers fell to £4 a week this year.
- a considerable amount of money
- an amount equivalent to 0.3% per annum
- exposure to high amounts of oxygen
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- considerable
- copious amounts
- enormous
- …
verb + amount
- double
- increase
- decrease
- …
amount + verb
- double
- increase
- decrease
- …
preposition
- amount of
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a sum of money
- Everyone has paid the same amount.
- You will receive a bill for the full amount.
- The insurance company will refund any amount due to you.
- Small amounts will be paid in cash.
- You must pay back the full amount that you owe.
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Word OriginMiddle English (as a verb): from Old French amunter, from amont ‘upward’, literally ‘uphill’, from Latin ad montem. The noun use dates from the early 18th cent.

Idioms

any amount of something

a large quantity of something
- There's been any amount of research into the subject.

no amount of something

used for saying that something will have no effect
- No amount of encouragement would make him jump into the pool.