Companies sell goods and services at a price, and all those sales together go into an aggregate number called revenues.

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Official unemployment sits at 8.9%, average weekly earnings have declined the last three months, and the aggregate number of hours worked grew a paltry 0.2% in February, after showing no improvement in January.

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But remember: GDP growth is an aggregate number.

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It all makes me think of British philosopher John Stuart Mill, who described the social theory of utilitarianism, which holds that one must always act so as to produce the greatest aggregate happiness for the greatest number of people.

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More times than not, the aggregate score is not even close to a number that guarantees a medal.

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On the other are the open source software enthusiasts who think that hackers are more trustworthy (in aggregate) than the proprietary systems of a small number of big companies.

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Because of the number of states and their diversity I'm going to aggregate all state and local taxes and express them as a percentage of GDP.

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Private businesses, which number about 27 million and account for over 54 percent of aggregate non-residential fixed investment, need clarity on how the debt will be reined in.

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This grew to be inconvenient right around World War I, so to give the federal government more flexibility, Congress decided to set an aggregate borrowing limit known as the debt ceiling, which capped the total number of bonds that could be issued.

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