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round down

(tr, adverb) to lower (a number) to the nearest whole number or ten, hundred, or thousand below it. Compare round up²

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round down - express as a round number; "round off the amount"

round off, round out, round

alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"

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w>round down

vt sep price, number → abrunden

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Of course, we will get the same garbled gobbledygook that we had during the decimalisation, when overnight we lost 40 pence in the pound and out came the rubbish that some companies would round down whereas others would round up.

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5 VICTOR LINDELOF So brilliantly composed compared to a nervy showing in the previous round down at Swansea.

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A round down, Quigley came out for the second, aware of the task in front of him, and showed exactly what he is capable of.

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Up Trinity Street, round down the Burges, up Bishop Street, he then turned right and took me past the Warwicks Club where he then had to wait for the traffic to be in 'our' favour.

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After firing a round down a hallway, Karl Pierson, 18, shot a fellow student who just happened to be sitting nearby with a friend as he headed toward the library.