verb · academic
aggregate
UK/ˈæɡ.rɪ.ɡeɪt/US/ˈæɡ.rə.ɡeɪt/AG·gre·gate
to combine several things into a single total or group
Examples
“To analyse trends, we aggregated data from five different surveys.”
“The study aggregates regional statistics to produce a national figure.”
“Aggregating results can hide local variations, so disaggregate data when possible.”
Band 8 sentence
“When researchers aggregate data across studies, they must ensure comparable measures; otherwise meta-analysis results are misleading.”
Collocations
- aggregate data
- aggregate score
- aggregate results
Word family
Common mistakes
summarize→aggregate
add up→aggregate
Say it for a higher band
5sum→6combine→7+aggregate
Synonyms
combine
summarize
Easily confused
summarize
“The introduction summarizes the key findings of the report.”
combine
“We need to combine these two lists before checking for duplicates.”
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