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round-up
 
Noun round-up has 3 senses
  1. roundup - the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold
    --1 is a kind of ranching
    Derived form: verb round up1
  2. roundup - a summary list; as in e.g. "a news roundup"
    --2 is a kind of summary
  3. roundup - the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police; "a mass roundup of suspects"
    --3 is a kind of police work, police investigation
    Derived form: verb round up1
Verb round-up has 1 sense
  1. round up - seek out and bring together; "round up some loyal followers"
    --1 is one way to gather, garner, collect, pull together
    Derived forms: noun roundup3, noun roundup1
    Sample sentence:
    They want to round up the prisoners
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