round figures

Idioms  

1. see in round numbers.

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Example Sentences

“People talked about money all winter,” Cashman said, speaking in very round figures.

From New York Times • May 28, 2013

Now he had found someone who thought of financing in terms of good round figures.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then Mr. Bonar Law polled in round figures about 5,300,000 Unionist votes; now Mr. Baldwin has polled practically the same 5,360,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

Month after month the Hsiao Mieh totals were issued, almost always in round figures: 1,150,000 in the central-south provinces, 1,176,000 in "four administrative regions," 300,000 in the five northwest provinces, and so on.

From Time Magazine Archive

The amounts are for one hundred and one dollars, two hundred and one dollars, occasionally three hundred and one dollars, as Bengalis consider it inauspicious to give round figures.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri