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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
round-up
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a cattle round-up
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But first, here's Tim with our Friday sports round-up.
▪ It was a sort of round-up of people's reactions to the petrol crisis.
▪ No back-slapping, no nostalgia, no history, no round-ups, no reprints, no celebrating whatsoever.
▪ Poetry and song hit the afternoon stage, topped by a big evening round-up featuring a herd of performers.
▪ That seems to be a fair round-up of the recipe that had bankers lending to property developers in this country.
▪ We gave the wrong number for the Western Digital bulletin board in our January round-up.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Round-up

Round-up \Round"-up`\, n.

  1. The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in. [Western U.S.]

  2. A rounding up, or upward curvature or convexity, as in the deck of a vessel.

    2. A gathering in of scattered persons or things; as, a round-up of criminals. [Colloq., U. S.]

Wikipedia
Round-Up (video game)

Round-Up is an arcade video game released in 1981 by Centuri. This game is also known and released by Taito as Fitter.

Usage examples of "round-up".

Each outfit exchanged slips based on the round-up tally with every other brand and so could show bill of sale for off-brand stuff in their beef shipments or for any rebrands on the range.

The round-up had ridden in but a few moments before, hungry and tired, to a supperless camp.

Then, suspecting as I had that at least one scout ship would return for a final round-up, they had investigated the properties, of the anthropometer and found out about the only insulator, berrillit blue.

Am not sayin I am what thare actuli lookin 4 - doan xpect I am - but thare catchin & cajin evrybody a bit diffrint or suspishis & that hed fing seems 2 b involved in thi round-up.

No charges were made as a result of the Apalachin round-up - all the gangsters had perfectly legitimate reasons for being there - but the story made nationwide headlines, and Genovese lost face.

Last spring one of the Three-Seven riders, a magnificent horseman was killed on the round-up near Belfield, his horse bucking and falling on him.

A round-up on a cattle ranch, as I suppose you all know, means just what the word implies.

The trained cow pony seemingly knows as much about a round-up as his master, and the two, together, form a combination that is invincible in a herd of wild cattle.

They were swept up in a Circle round-up just outside Baltimore and thrown into the parade of human misery that had just now reached the former nation's capital.

I got to thinking that I hadn't seen all of it, not by a long sight, in spite of all the geography trips I had made and going to one Scout round-up in Switzerland and the time George and Anne and I went to Siam.