The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word AGGREGATE
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More clues leading to the result AGGREGATE
- Total amount of silver Greek, for example, put away
- Get garage rebuilt for a sum
- Stone mark on plate within a grand portal
- Collective anger essentially admitted by chief in time
- Having made arrangement, get garage to collect
- Time to enclose earliest of graves in large piece of granite perhaps
- Collect material for concrete
- It’s a total wreck: get garage
- Total got from a boy standing in narrow opening
- Get garage to make new arrangement for collection of parts
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The straight part
We know that "Total amount" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case total amount = aggregate.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does AGGREGATE mean?
AGGREGATE noun- A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
- A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
- A set (collection of objects).
- The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
- The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores
- (roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
- Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements, especially the gravel and sand added to concrete.
- Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.
- To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
- To add or unite (e.g. a person), to an association.
- To amount in the aggregate to.
- Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
- Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
- Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
- Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
- Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
- United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.