- [countable] a total number or amount made up of smaller amounts that are collected together
- a record aggregate of 285 points
- The three smaller parties gained an aggregate of 25 per cent of the vote.
- [uncountable, countable] (specialist) sand or broken stone that is used to make concrete or for building roads, etc.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin aggregat- ‘herded together’, from the verb aggregare, from ad- ‘towards’ + grex, greg- ‘a flock’.
Idioms
See aggregate in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee aggregate in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishin (the) aggregate
- (formal) added together as a total or single amount
- Businesses are, in the aggregate, deeper in debt than ever before.
on aggregate
- (British English, sport) when the scores of a number of games are added together
- They won 4–2 on aggregate.
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