From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishtotal something ↔ up phrasal verbCOUNT/CALCULATEto find the total number or total amount of something by adding At the end of the game, total up everyone’s score to see who has won. → total→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
total up• Nationally, the total is up 1,056,000 on April, 1990, when it first started expanding.• Like - for - like sales at Superdrug were up 5.6 per cent, while total sales were up 8.4 per cent.• Chiefly, by his total dedication.• Dividends total 5p, up a penny, with a 3.75p final.• S. revenues were 44 percent of total revenues, up dramatically from 24 percent in 1985.• Women constitute almost 58 percent of the total work-force, up from 45 percent in the seventies.• The total may go up or down under negotiation.• It's total pandemonium up there. 