figure up

English

Verb

figure up (third-person singular simple present figures up, present participle figuring up, simple past and past participle figured up)

1. (transitive) To add up or calculate.

   Synonyms: figure out, tally up

   • 1893, Theodore Brainard Terry, Our Farming:

     Third, clover increases the fertility of the soil by shading it almost constantly during the season of its growth. In figuring up the greater amount of fertility that clover could store up, I did not put this in.

   • 1992, G. W. Hawkes, Spies in the Blue Smoke:

     The room was jammed; we'd never figured up its cubic space and measured it against the things we were buying

   • 2016, Michael "Terry" Marks, Scaffolding:

     In order to figure up the list price value of its sales items the company management must decide how much the item must be marked up in order to maintain certain gross margins.

Synonyms

• reckon out

References

• “figure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.