round up
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round up (third-person singular simple present rounds up, present participle rounding up, simple past and past participle rounded up)
- (transitive) To gather (cattle) together by riding around them.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To collect or gather (something) together.
- The city hall needs to round up all the wrongly parked bikes across the city.
- (transitive, informal) 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.
- (transitive, arithmetic) 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.
- Antonym: round down
- Hypernym: round off
- The total is $24,995 — let's round up to $25,000.
Derived terms[edit]
- rounder-upper
- roundup (noun)
Translations[edit]
to collect or gather (something) together
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to round up a number
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