ring up
verb
rang up; rung up; ringing up; rings up
1
: to total and record especially by means of a cash register
ring up a sale
2
: achieve
rang up many social triumphs
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Examples of ring up in a Sentence
our friend rang us up to see if we wanted to go to a cricket match
touted the many diplomatic triumphs that the president supposedly rang up in his first term
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Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Biden administration rang up a budget deficit topping $1.8 trillion in fiscal 2024, up more than 8% from the previous year and the third highest on record, the Treasury Department said Friday.
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Jeff Cox, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
Things are bad enough — combustible enough — and that’s before Gary and Jack ring up Ray and Michael and tell them that two of their rams have appeared on their side of the hill, dead.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024
If the Giants don’t regularly ring up crowds at least in the low 30,000s in these remaining Oracle games … watch out.
—Tim Kawakami, The Athletic, 22 Aug. 2024
Cashman, in an equal panic, rang up principal owner Hal Steinbrenner vacationing in Europe.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 19 Oct. 2024
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Jeff Cox, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
Things are bad enough — combustible enough — and that’s before Gary and Jack ring up Ray and Michael and tell them that two of their rams have appeared on their side of the hill, dead.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024
If the Giants don’t regularly ring up crowds at least in the low 30,000s in these remaining Oracle games … watch out.
—Tim Kawakami, The Athletic, 22 Aug. 2024
Cashman, in an equal panic, rang up principal owner Hal Steinbrenner vacationing in Europe.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 19 Oct. 2024
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“Ring up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ring%20up. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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