round down

verb

1. (tr, adverb) to lower (a number) to the nearest whole number or ten, hundred, or thousand below it Compare round up

Example Sentences

The employee, Sheridan Covington, said there was a company policy in place to “disproportionately round down” the number of hours worked when calculating pay.

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Where a party has polled less than 0.5%, it is shown in the table below as 0 due to rounding down the numbers.

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With two rounds down, three teams have been eliminated and only one, UCLA, remains alive.

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Business Insider first reported on the development, adding that several Home Depot employees filed lawsuits in recent years accusing the company of purposefully rounding down their pay.

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She said in resident fishing license applications in 2020 and 2021, she ”erred on the side of caution and rounded down to only count full months” in reporting how long she had been a resident.

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