ROUND UP Definition & Meaning

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round up

verb

to gather (animals, suspects, etc) together
to round ponies up
to raise (a number) to the nearest whole number or ten, hundred, or thousand above it Compare round down

noun

the act of gathering together livestock, esp cattle, so that they may be branded, counted, or sold
any similar act of collecting or bringing together
a roundup of today's news
a collection of suspects or criminals by the police, esp in a raid

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Idioms and Phrases

Collect or gather in a body, as in We'll have to round up some more volunteers for the food drive , or The police rounded up all the suspects . This term comes from the West, where since the mid-1800s it has been used for collecting livestock by riding around the herd and driving the animals together. By about 1875 it was extended to other kinds of gathering together.

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"A lot of innocent people were rounded up too," she says of President Bukele's crackdown.

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The White House continues to insist that all those they rounded up are dangerous gang members and were carefully vetted.

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Maybe they'll find a way to use the "great replacement theory" to round up their domestic political enemies as well.

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As the men were being rounded up, she tried to step outside.

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Constitution when they rounded up and deported scores of laborers in the country without legal authorization.

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