in aggregate

English

Alternative forms

• in the aggregate

Prepositional phrase

in aggregate

1. Considered or taken together.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[1], page 7:

     Leaving aside the abundance of negativity for the time being, in aggregate these attempts at definition speak to the multitude of linguistic phenomena characteristic of language hybridity in multilingual settings, albeit explained with differing emphases by different definers.

Further reading

• “in (the) aggregate”, in Collins English Dictionary.