Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

round up

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.12 in modern English

Syllables: round up
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To collect or gather (something) together.

Transitive verb

verb

To collect or gather (something) together.

Transitive verb

verb

To collect or gather (something) together.

Informal; Transitive verb

verb

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.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"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."
"In the autumn we round up all the hill sheep and bring them down into the barn."
"During the Holocaust, the Nazis rounded up Jews into ghettos and concentration camps."
"Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects."
"The total is $24,995 — let's round it up to $25,000."

Usage

Inflected Forms

rounds up (present, singular) rounding up (participle, present) rounded up (participle, past) rounded up (past)

Derived Forms

roundup

Phrases

rounder-upper

Frequently Paired Words

assemble

Synonyms

aggregate bracket aggroup bring together collect corral confer congregate gather gather up group herd

Antonyms

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

Questions

What does round up mean?: To collect or gather (something) together.

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