ring up

verb

rang up; rung up; ringing up; rings up

transitive verb

1

: to total and record especially by means of a cash register

ring up a sale

2

: achieve

rang up many social triumphs

Synonyms

• achieve
• attain
• bag
• chalk up
• clock (up) [chiefly British]
• gain
• hit
• log
• make
• notch (up)
• rack up
• score
• win

Examples of ring up in a Sentence

our friend rang us up to see if we wanted to go to a cricket match

touted the many diplomatic triumphs that the president supposedly rang up in his first term

Recent Examples on the Web

Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Biden administration rang up a budget deficit topping $1.8 trillion in fiscal 2024, up more than 8% from the previous year and the third highest on record, the Treasury Department said Friday. —Jeff Cox, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024

Things are bad enough — combustible enough — and that’s before Gary and Jack ring up Ray and Michael and tell them that two of their rams have appeared on their side of the hill, dead. —Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024

If the Giants don’t regularly ring up crowds at least in the low 30,000s in these remaining Oracle games … watch out. —Tim Kawakami, The Athletic, 22 Aug. 2024

Cashman, in an equal panic, rang up principal owner Hal Steinbrenner vacationing in Europe. —Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 19 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

ring up

verb

: to add up and record on a cash register