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Ring up

verb

To perform and record a sale on a cash register.

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"Ring up" Quotes from Famous Books

... later years became well known as a medium. She communicated with the hereafter, or at the very least professed to do so, by telephonic wireless. It used to be rather weird to hear her ring up "Gehenna, 1 double 7, 6." I have not the least doubt that she would have convinced a famous physicist who, curiously enough, is weak on facts, or a writer of detective stories who, equally curiously, ...

— Marge Askinforit • Barry Pain

... made my way to the head of the column, where Bowman's company had broken ranks and stood in a ring up to their thighs in the grass. In the centre of the ring, standing on one foot before our angry Colonel, ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... that I depended on the services of a very small boy, who thinks he cleans it. Staid and level-headed as were my maids, they answered no bells that morning, which was perhaps natural, as I believe none ring up to the nursery. Of course they had to be interested ...

— The Professional Aunt • Mary C.E. Wemyss

... is," Morris admitted, "but just you ring up and ask him. Then, if we find that he sold that gold and silver stock we take ...

— Potash & Perlmutter - Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures • Montague Glass

... him th' innumerable crowd of armed prayers Knock'd at the gates of heav'n, and knock'd aloud; The first well-meaning rude petitioners All for his life assail'd the throne; All would have brib'd the skies by off'ring up their own. So great a throng not heav'n itself could bar; 'Twas almost borne by force, as in the giants' war. The pray'rs, at least, for his reprieve were heard: His death, like ...

— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson