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ring up
verb
to make a telephone call (to)
(tr) to record on a cash register
(tr) to chronicle; record
to ring up another success
to begin a theatrical performance
(often foll by on) to make a start (on)
Idioms and Phrases
Record, especially by means of a cash register, as in They had already rung up the sale so I decided not to get the extra items . [c. 1930] Although older cash registers usually signaled a recorded sale with the ringing of a bell, the idiom survives in the age of computers.
Accomplish, achieve, as in They rang up an impressive string of victories .
Example Sentences
"Even somebody ringing up and saying 'my bin hasn't been emptied' wasn't dealt with."
But somewhere along the way, the companies realized they could ring up steep profits at the expense of patients.
A mum with kids requiring refrigerated medicines for cancer rang up with her voice cracking because she could not afford her £5 prepayment top-up and asked to be put onto a credit direct debit.
She said, ‘ring up at eight o'clock in the morning’.
It’s part of a new Trump scheme to make money for himself and his bankers from a failing company that rang up just $4.1 million in revenue last year and lost more than $58 million.
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