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round up

British  

verb

  1. to gather (animals, suspects, etc) together

    to round ponies up

  2. to raise (a number) to the nearest whole number or ten, hundred, or thousand above it Compare round down

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. the act of gathering together livestock, esp cattle, so that they may be branded, counted, or sold

  2. any similar act of collecting or bringing together

    a roundup of today's news

  3. a collection of suspects or criminals by the police, esp in a raid

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
round up Idioms  

  1. 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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Lawyers defending the humanitarian staff have also been rounded up.

From BBC

That provision was offered because Warner board members have expressed concerns that Paramount may not be able to round up sufficient financing to close such a gargantuan deal.

From Los Angeles Times

It makes little sense to round up and deport those who haven’t committed crimes and are gainfully employed.

From The Wall Street Journal

Roxbury residents are worried not just about having a jail in their neighborhood but immigration agents rounding up people there.

From Barron's

I was itching to get our big Sunday dinner over with so I could round up a couple more Wonders.

From Literature

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