grand total

1. 1.

   the sum of the sums of several groups of numbers

   Broadersum

Questions about grand total

What does grand total mean?

grand total means "the sum of the sums of several groups of numbers".

Is grand total a common word?

grand total is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.