round up

• Verbe à particule utilisé pour désigner le rassemblement de personnes, d'animaux ou de choses, ou l'arrondissement d'un nombre à la valeur entière la plus proche.

A phrasal verb used to indicate gathering people, animals, or things together, or increasing a number to the nearest whole figure.

indénombrable · transitif · phrasal, séparable

1. Gather people or thingsinformal

   To collect or bring together people, animals, or objects into one place.

   Rassembler (des gens, des animaux ou des objets)

   • The teacher rounded up the students for the field trip.
   • We need to round up all the supplies before the event.
   • The cowboys rounded up the cattle in the field.

   Synonymesassemblecollectcorralgatherherdmarshalmusterrally

   Antonymesdispersescatterseparate

2. formal

   To increase a number to the nearest whole number or higher value.

   Arrondir à l'unité supérieure

   • Round up the total to the nearest dollar.
   • The calculator rounded up 3.14 to 4.
   • When calculating the bill, they rounded up the amount.

   Antonymesround downtruncate

3. Capture or arrestinformal

   To find and capture people, especially criminals or suspects.

   Rassembler et appréhender

   • The police rounded up the suspects after the robbery.
   • They rounded up the escaped prisoners within hours.
   • The authorities rounded up the gang members in a raid.

   Synonymesapprehendarrestcapturecatchcollardetainnabseize

   Antonymesfreerelease

Verbe de baseround