# round up

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/round-up
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

To collect or gather (something) together.

## Examples

- Please help me round up the stray chairs after the party.
- The teacher had to round up all the students before the bus could leave for the field trip.
- The rancher spent the entire morning trying to round up the cattle that had wandered through the broken fence into the neighboring valley.

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