- 1a sum of money The insurance company will refund any amount due to you. You will receive a bill for the full amount. Small amounts will be paid in cash.
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- 2amount (of something) (used especially with uncountable nouns) a quantity of something an amount of time/money/information We've had an enormous amount of help from people. The server is designed to store huge amounts of data. Idioms
a large quantity of something There's been any amount of research into the subject.
used for saying that something will have no effect No amount of encouragement would make him jump into the pool.
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