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Definition of Roundups
1. roundup [n] - See also: roundup
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roundups
Literary usage of Roundups
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Juvenile Injustice: Police Abuse and Detention of Street Children in Kenya by Yodon Thonden, Lois Whitman, Binaifer Nowrojee (1997)
"90 In practice, most roundups are conducted in a punitive manner, and children
... roundups occur most frequently in Nairobi, where the numbers of street ..."
2. Island Song Lyrics Volume 2 by Larry W. Jones (2004)
"... they lies they had to say They had seen all the roundups on the Chisholm trail
Some had seen all the roundups that telling could tell Up walked a ..."
3. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1897)
"On the spring roundups, recently finished in Wyoming, there has been everywhere
evidence of great numbers of wolves, and many cattle are found, ..."
4. Compiled Laws of New Mexico: In Accordance with an Act of the Legislature by New Mexico, John Patrick Victory (1897)
"The time to have said two annual roundups shall be in the months of June and
September of each year. Said justices of the peace thus constituting the board ..."
5. Cruisings in the Cascades: A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur by George O. Shields (1889)
"These associations meet in the spring and fall of each year and fix the dates
for holding the roundups, usually prescribing the general boundaries in which ..."
6. Human Rights in Venezuela by Clifford C. Rohde, Jamie Fellner, Cynthia G. Brown, Human Rights Watch (Organization), Americas Watch Committee (U.S.) (1993)
"Police roundups, known as redadas, are common practice. ... Police employ roundups
in areas that have been hit hard by crime sprees, after a police agent ..."
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