roundup
English
Etymology
Deverbal from round up.
Noun
roundup (plural roundups)
- (US, agriculture) An activity in which cattle are herded together in order to be inspected, counted, branded or shipped.
- (law enforcement) The similar police activity of gathering together suspects.
- The forcible gathering together of any particular group of people.
- 2009, Shannon L. Fogg, The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France, page 111:
- Vichy's antisemitism as codified in the National Revolution was well established, and the first massive roundup of foreign Jews had taken place the previous fall.
- The summary to a news bulletin.
- An upward curvature or convexity, as in the deck of a vessel.
- The finishing of an arrangement.
Synonyms
- (agriculture): muster (Australia, New Zealand)
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