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round up

verb

Meaning

  1. To collect or gather (something) together.
  2. To gather (livestock such as cattle, sheep, geese, etc.) together, such as by encircling them.
  3. To arrest or detain a group of people based on collective (rather than individualized) cause or suspicion, often as a form of targeted persecution.
  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.

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