ROUND UP


Meaning of ROUND UP in English

1.

If the police or army round up a number of people, they arrest or capture them.

The police rounded up a number of suspects...

She says the patrolmen rounded them up at the village school and beat them with rifle butts.

PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron) , V n P

2.

If you round up animals or things, you gather them together.

He had sought work as a cowboy, rounding up cattle...

PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron)

3.

see also round 2, roundup

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