number

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1. sum, summation, total, aggregate, count; tally, score, tale, reckoning, gross, gross amount, whole bill; amount, quantity, product; power, exponent, progression; subtrahend, quotient, difference.

2. numeral, digit. See numeral.

3. edition, issue, single issue, impression, imprint, print; printing, volume, copy, folio, first edition, later edition, incunabulum.

4. numbers

plurality, multitude, quantities; pre-ponderancy, infinite number; Inf. raft, Inf. slew, Inf. thousand and one, Inf. oodles, Inf. scads, scores; array, bevy, galaxy, troop, legion, host, army, mob, crowd, party; Inf. loads, bags, tons, barrels, flocks, bunches, no end of; a tidy sum, Inf. a passel; swarm, herd, drove, litter.

5. numbers pool or game

lottery, state lottery, racing lottery, gambling, U.S. policy.

6. do a number on

Slang. gull, deceive, take in, put on an act for, Inf. put on; sail under false colors, pull the wool over the eyes of, put one over on; defraud, cheat, rook, bilk, swindle, Inf. flimflam; Inf. fast-talk, Sl. snow, seduce, beguile; betray, double-cross, Sl. shaft.

7. without number

innumerable, many, very many, myriad, untold. See numberless.

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8. enumerate, count, count off, numerate, paginate; tally, tell, tell off, tick off; figure, cipher, figure up, tot, reckon; compute, calculate, score, sum, sum up, add, subtract, multiply, divide; estimate, make an estimate, assess; account, make an accounting, make a count, audit, balance, prove; call the roll, roll-call, take attendance; take stock, inventory, count up.