round up

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To collect or gather (something) together. idiomatic,transitive
    — The city hall needs to round up all the wrongly parked bikes across the city.
  2. To collect or gather (something) together.; To gather (livestock such as cattle, sheep, geese, etc.) together, such as by encircling them. idiomatic,transitive
    — In the autumn we round up all the hill sheep and bring them down into the barn.
  3. To collect or gather (something) together.; To arrest or detain a group of people based on collective (rather than individualized) cause or suspicion, often as a form of targeted persecution. idiomatic,informal,transitive
    — During the Holocaust, the Nazis rounded up Jews into ghettos and concentration camps.
  4. 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
    — The total is $24,995 — let's round it up to $25,000.

词形变化

rounds up present,singular,third-person rounding up participle,present rounded up participle,past rounded up past
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