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round up

round up

 
See:
round
part of speech: phrase
definition 1: to bring together; collect.
The tour bus will leave as soon as all the passengers are rounded up.The sheriff sent the deputy to round up the suspects.The dog rounded up the sheep.
similar words:
assemble, group
definition 2: to raise to the nearest number that ends in zero or to the nearest whole number
The price was actually ninety-seven dollars, but I rounded it up to one hundred.