round up en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic, transitive) To collect or gather (something) together.
The city hall needs to round up all the wrongly parked bikes across the city.
They rounded up a group of experts and got their opinions.
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(idiomatic, transitive) To collect or gather (something) together. ▸ To gather (livestock such as cattle, sheep, geese, etc.) together, such as by encircling them.
In the autumn we round up all the hill sheep and bring them down into the barn.
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(idiomatic, informal, transitive) To collect or gather (something) together. ▸ To arrest or detain a group of people based on collective (rather than individualized) cause or suspicion, often as a form of targeted persecution.
During the Holocaust, the Nazis rounded up Jews into ghettos and concentration camps.
Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.
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(transitive) To round (a number) to the smallest integer that is not less than it, or to some other greater value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.
The total is $24,995 — let's round it up to $25,000.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| rounded up | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| rounded up | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| rounding up | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| rounds up | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Antonyms
break up · dissolve · disperse · round down · disband · give someone the heave-ho
Deriveds
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
impanel · ensemble · rally · muster · amass · pile
Relateds
Synonyms
herd · collect · corral · gather up · congregate · togetherize · group · team up · bracket · confer · bring together · team · round up · aggregate · mass · aggroup · gather
Translations (30)
fr réunir (to collect or gather (something) together) · bg събирам (to collect or gather (something) together) · ru округли́ть (to round up a number) · bg закръглям нагоре (to round up a number) · pt vaquejar (to collect or gather (something) together) · de zusammentrommeln (to collect or gather (something) together) · ru согна́ть (to collect or gather (something) together) · es redondear (to round up a number) · ru сгоня́ть (to collect or gather (something) together) · ru округля́ть (to round up a number) · sv avrunda (to round up a number) · fr cueillir (to collect or gather (something) together) · pt juntar (to collect or gather (something) together) · ru окружа́ть (to collect or gather (something) together) · ru окружи́ть (to collect or gather (something) together) · fr rassembler (to collect or gather (something) together) · fi pyöristää ylöspäin (to round up a number) · cih 向上取整 (to round up a number) · no samle (to collect or gather (something) together) · it arrotondare per eccesso (to round up a number) · pt arredondar (to round up a number) · bg закръгля нагоре (to round up a number) · sv samla ihop (to collect or gather (something) together) · de aufrunden (to round up a number) · fr arrondir (to round up a number) · pt reunir (to collect or gather (something) together) · fi koota (to collect or gather (something) together) · de zusammentreiben (to collect or gather (something) together) · ca arrodonir (to round up a number) · bg сбирам (to collect or gather (something) together)