round up

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

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

Idioms and Phrases

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.

Example Sentences

Mike Murphy rounded up the new offerings from the eight streaming services, highlighting what to watch and how much each service costs, in this detailed guide to streaming services in November.

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From her hiding place, Mohamad described how she watched fighters rounding up dozens of men and boys before shooting them.

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Large numbers of masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could round up voters, many of them citizens who “look suspicious.”

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We round up the best horror classics playing in L.A. over the next eight days: special 35mm prints, giant screens, huge monsters.

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As they rifled through books and handcuffed Mr. Jin, 56, a police dragnet fell across the country, rounding up other leaders in the church’s network.

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Related Words

• bring in 
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• herd