round up
Third Person
rounds up
Present Participle
rounding up
Past Tense
rounded up
Past Participle
rounded up
1
to gather people or things, often to organize or deal with them
transitive
- The teacher had to round up all the students for the field trip.
- The police rounded up the suspects in the early morning raid.
- Please round the volunteers up for the community cleanup.
- Let's round up the necessary documents for the meeting.
- The event organizers are trying to round up the supplies for the charity drive.
2
to raise a numerical value to the next higher whole number
transitive
- The store manager decided to round up the price of the product to the nearest dollar.
- The teacher asked us to round our answers up to the nearest hundred.
- It's common practice to round up the final bill to the nearest five dollars for tipping.
- When calculating the delivery time, they always round the hours up for safety.
- Please round the quantity up to the nearest thousand for accurate reporting.
3
to arrest a group of individuals, often as part of a law enforcement operation
transitive
- The police decided to round up the suspects involved in the recent crime wave.
- Law enforcement officers worked together to round up the gang members.
- They successfully rounded the drug traffickers up during the sting operation.
- The undercover agents helped round up the smugglers along the border.
- The FBI intends to round the hackers up and bring them to justice.