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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

... dismissal, Sire! Since I must go, my time is precious." Then Adjured the King:—"For Jesus' sake and mine!" With his right hand he Ganelon absolved And blessed, deliv'ring up the brief ...

— La Chanson de Roland • Lon Gautier

... that goes, Lubliner," he says, "I don't got to ring up Mr. Flugel to tell you the same thing, so you ...

— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass

... was calm enough to get out of bed and ring up the round-eyed waiter for a flannel nightshirt, a soda and whisky, and some good cigars. And these things being procured me, after an exasperating delay that drove me several times to the bell, I locked the door again and proceeded very deliberately to ...

— The First Men In The Moon • H. G. Wells

... stop Thomas," I said. "We might ring up the Admiralty and ask them to give him something to do this evening. I don't know about Archie. ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 • Various

... literary occupation, author-journalist. In fact we are just bringing out a collection of prize stories of which I am the inventor, something that is an entirely new departure. I am connected with the British and Irish press. If you ring up... ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

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