Usually means: Increase to nearest whole number.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word round up:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. round up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. round up: Merriam-Webster
  3. round up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. round up: Vocabulary.com
  5. Round-Up, Round-up, round-up: Wordnik
  6. round-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. round up: Wiktionary
  8. Round-up, round up: Dictionary.com
  9. Round-Up (video game), Round Up (ride): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Round-up: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. round-up: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. round up: Rhymezone
  13. Round-up, round up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. round-up, round up: FreeDictionary.org
  15. round up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. round-up, round up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. round up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. round up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Round Up (disambiguation), round-up, round up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. round up: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. round up: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. round up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Round up: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (round up)

verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To collect or gather (something) together.
verb:  To gather (livestock such as cattle, sheep, geese, etc.) together, such as by encircling them.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To arrest or detain a group of people based on collective (rather than individualized) cause or suspicion, often as a form of targeted persecution.
verb:  (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.

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