figure up

present singular third person figures up · participle present figuring up · participle past figured up · past figured up

1. transitiveTo add up or calculate.

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

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

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   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.

   1893, Theodore Brainard Terry, Our Farming

   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.

   2016, Michael "Terry" Marks, Scaffolding

   Synonyms: figure out, tally up, reckon out