round up

See also: roundup and Roundup

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

round up (third-person singular simple present rounds up, present participle rounding up, simple past and past participle rounded up)

1. (transitive) To gather (cattle) together by riding around them.
2. (transitive, idiomatic) To collect or gather (something) together.

   Round up the usual suspects.

3. (transitive, arithmetic) 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.

   The total is $24,995 — let's round up to $25,000.

Antonyms

• (arithmetic): round down

Derived terms

• rounder-upper

Translations

to collect or gather (something) together

• Finnish: koota (fi)
• French: rassembler (fr), réunir (fr), cueillir (fr)
• German: zusammentreiben, zusammentrommeln (de) (colloquial)
• Norwegian: samle (no)
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• Portuguese: juntar (pt), reunir (pt)
• Russian: сгоня́ть (ru) impf (sgonjátʹ), согна́ть (ru) pf (sognátʹ), окружа́ть (ru) impf (okružátʹ), окружи́ть (ru) pf (okružítʹ) (encircle, surround)
• Swedish: samla ihop

to round up a number

• Catalan: arrodonir (ca)
• Chinali: 向上取整
• Finnish: pyöristää ylöspäin
• French: arrondir (fr)
• German: aufrunden (de)
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• Italian: arrotondare (it) per eccesso (it) m
• Portuguese: arredondar (pt)
• Russian: округля́ть (ru) impf (okrugljátʹ), округли́ть (ru) pf (okruglítʹ)
• Spanish: redondear (es)
• Swedish: avrunda (sv)

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