English Dictionary

ring up

verb

(transitive, idiomatic) To telephone; to call someone on the telephone. / (transitive) To enter (a payment) into a cash register, or till in a shop, or record a credit- or debit-card payment.

I need to ring up the customer's purchase.

意味（1）

(transitive, idiomatic) To telephone; to call someone on the telephone.

Malone at once rang up Lord Roxton, and soon heard the familiar voice.

意味（2）

(transitive) To enter (a payment) into a cash register, or till in a shop, or record a credit- or debit-card payment.

I'll take these. You can ring me up.

意味（3）

(transitive) To record the payment of.

The cashier took a long time to ring him up.

意味（4）

(transitive) To make an adverse official decision concerning (a person).

Munson appeared to have taken Billy's exhortation on aggressiveness to heart. Umpire Jim McKean rung him up on strikes at one point in the game, so Thurman bumped him in anger.

意味（5）

To rouse by the ringing of a bell.

意味（6）

(baseball) To strikeout a batter and thereby send him or her back to the dugout.