English Explanatory Dictionary

round up

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To collect or gather (something) together.
  2. To gather (livestock such as cattle, sheep, geese, etc.) together, such as by encircling them.
  3. To arrest or detain a group of people based on collective (rather than individualized) cause or suspicion, often as a form of targeted persecution.
  4. 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.

Pronunciation

En-au-round up.ogg

Word forms

round up rounds up rounding up rounded up

Synonyms

aggregate bracket aggroup bring together collect confer congregate gather gather up group herd mass round up team team up togetherize

Antonyms

break up disband disperse dissolve give someone the heave-ho round down

Related words

assemble

Derived words

rounder-upper roundup

Translations

Bulgarian: събирам Bulgarian: сбирам Finnish: koota French: rassembler French: réunir French: cueillir German: zusammentreiben German: zusammentrommeln Norwegian: samle Portuguese: juntar Portuguese: reunir Portuguese: vaquejar Russian: сгоня́ть Russian: согна́ть Russian: окружа́ть Russian: окружи́ть Swedish: samla ihop
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