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4 PREP If you want to focus on something that is happening within a particular group of people, you can say that it is happening among that group. □  Unemployment is quite high, especially among young people.

5 PREP If something happens among a group of people, it happens within the whole of that group or between the members of that group. □  I am sick of all the quarrelling among politicians who should be concentrating on vital issues.

6 PREP If something such as a feeling, opinion, or situation exists among a group of people, most of them have it or experience it. □  The biggest fear among parents thinking of using the Internet is that their children will be exposed to pornography.

7 PREP If something applies to a particular person or thing among others , it also applies to other people or things. □  …a news conference attended among others by our foreign affairs correspondent.

8 PREP If something is shared among a number of people, some of it is given to all of them. □  Most of the furniture was left to the neighbours or distributed among friends.

9 PREP If people talk, fight, or agree among themselves , they do it together, without involving anyone else. □  European farm ministers disagree among themselves.

amongst /əmʌ ŋst/ PREP Amongst means the same as among . [LITERARY ]

amor|al /e I mɒ rəl, [AM ] -mɔː r-/ ADJ If you describe someone as amoral , you do not like the way they behave because they do not seem to care whether what they do is right or wrong. [DISAPPROVAL ] □  I strongly disagree with this amoral approach to politics.

amo|rous /æ mərəs/ ADJ [usu ADJ n] If you describe someone's feelings or actions as amorous , you mean that they involve sexual desire.

amor|phous /əmɔː ^r fəs/ ADJ [usu ADJ n] Something that is amorphous has no clear shape or structure. [FORMAL ] □  A dark, strangely amorphous shadow filled the room. □  …the amorphous mass of the unemployed.

amor|tize /əmɔː ^r ta I z, [AM ] æ mər-/ (amortizes , amortizing , amortized ) in BRIT, also use amortise VERB In finance, if you amortize a debt, you pay it back in regular payments. [BUSINESS ] □ [be V -ed] Business expenses had to be amortized over a 60 month period.

amount ◆◆◇ /əmaʊ nt/ (amounts , amounting , amounted )

1 N‑VAR The amount of something is how much there is, or how much you have, need, or get. □ [+ of ] He needs that amount of money to survive. □ [+ of ] I still do a certain amount of work for them. □  Postal money orders are available in amounts up to $700.

2 VERB If something amounts to a particular total, all the parts of it add up to that total. □ [V + to ] Consumer spending on sports-related items amounted to £9.75 billion.

▸  amount to PHRASAL VERB If you say that one thing amounts to something else, you consider the first thing to be the same as the second thing. □ [V P n] The confessions were obtained by what amounts to torture. COLLOCATIONS amount NOUN 1

adjective + amount : certain, considerable, fair, significant, substantial; enormous, huge, large, tremendous, vast; maximum, minimum; total

verb + amount : invest, pay, spend; increase, reduce

amour /æmʊə ^r / (amours ) N‑COUNT An amour is a love affair, especially one which is kept secret. [LITERARY or OLD-FASHIONED ]

amp /æ mp/ (amps )

1 N‑COUNT An amp is the same as an ampere . □  Use a 3 amp fuse for equipment up to 720 watts.

2 N‑COUNT An amp is the same as an amplifier . [INFORMAL ]

am|pere /æ mpeə ^r , [AM ] -p I ə ^r / (amperes ) in BRIT, also use ampère N‑COUNT An ampere is a unit which is used for measuring electric current. The abbreviation amp is also used.