RING UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ring up mean? 

• RING UP (verb)
  The verb RING UP has 1 sense:

1. to perform and record a sale on a cash register

  Familiarity information: RING UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RING UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To perform and record a sale on a cash register

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

Sally rang up Eve's purchase of tomatoes

Hypernyms (to "ring up" is one way to...):

enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

So he was led out to the sea, and a gold ring was thrown into it, before his eyes; then the king ordered him to fetch this ring up from the bottom of the sea, and added: If you come up again without it you will be thrown in again and again until you perish amid the waves.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)