View synonyms for ring up

ring up

verb

to make a telephone call (to)
(tr) to record on a cash register
(tr) to chronicle; record
to ring up another success
1. to begin a theatrical performance
2. (often foll by on) to make a start (on)

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Idioms and Phrases

Record, especially by means of a cash register, as in They had already rung up the sale so I decided not to get the extra items . [c. 1930] Although older cash registers usually signaled a recorded sale with the ringing of a bell, the idiom survives in the age of computers.

Accomplish, achieve, as in They rang up an impressive string of victories .

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Example Sentences

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The phones lit up, with many callers ringing up to put Big Mags in the frame, exposing her as the big boss of a drug dynasty that ran heroin out of their flats.

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Trasi said there was "no end of people ringing up, offering to help and contribute. It's really blown our minds with with how kind people have been".

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"Even somebody ringing up and saying 'my bin hasn't been emptied' wasn't dealt with."

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But somewhere along the way, the companies realized they could ring up steep profits at the expense of patients.

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A mum with kids requiring refrigerated medicines for cancer rang up with her voice cracking because she could not afford her £5 prepayment top-up and asked to be put onto a credit direct debit.

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