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Definition of round up phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

round up

phrasal verb
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round somebody/something up
  1. to find and gather together people, animals or things
    • I rounded up a few friends for a party.
    • The cattle are rounded up in the evenings.
  2. if police or soldiers round up a group of people, they find them and arrest or capture them
    • A number of suspects were rounded up and questioned.
    related noun round-up
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