ROUND (SOMEBODY/SOMETHING) UP


Meaning of ROUND (SOMEBODY/SOMETHING) UP in English

round somebody/something ↔ up phrasal verb ( see also ↑ round )

1 . if police or soldiers round up a particular group of people, they find them and force them to go to prison:

Thousands of men were rounded up and jailed.

2 . to find and gather together a group of people, animals, or things:

See if you can round up a few friends to help you!

His dog Nell started to round up the sheep.

3 . to increase an exact figure to the next highest whole number ⇨ round down

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.