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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold;

2. a summary list; as in e.g. "a news roundup";

3. the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police;
- Example: "a mass roundup of suspects"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.] [1913 Webster] 2. A rounding up, or upward curvature or convexity, as in the deck of a vessel. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. A gathering in of scattered persons or things; as, a round-up of criminals. [Colloq., U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

roundup n 1: the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold 2: a summary list; as in e.g. "a news roundup" 3: the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police; "a mass roundup of suspects"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

27 Moby Thesaurus words for "roundup": assemblage, assembly, call-up, canvass, census, collection, colligation, collocation, combination, comparison, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congregation, convergence, corralling, data-gathering, gathering, ingathering, inventory, junction, juxtaposition, mobilization, muster, rodeo, survey
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Roundup, MT -- U.S. city in Montana Population (2000): 1931 Housing Units (2000): 978 Land area (2000): 1.343016 sq. miles (3.478396 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.001627 sq. miles (0.004214 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.344643 sq. miles (3.482610 sq. km) FIPS code: 64525 Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30 Location: 46.448401 N, 108.542676 W ZIP Codes (1990): 59072 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Roundup, MT Roundup