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roll-up

roll-up is the alternative form of rollup.

Meaning of rollup

Noun

rollup (plural rollups)

  1. That which is rolled up; a summation; an aggregation; a total.
    • In some cases, you may want to add custom rollups that change the way a measure is calculated on a specific level.2013, Simon Lidberg, Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development
  2. A food preparation made by wrapping ingredients in another food, e.g. meat and vegetables wrapped in flatbread.
    • She ate a chicken rollup and a salad.
    Synonyms:
    pinwheel, roll, swirl
  3. A kind of flat, pectin-based, fruit-flavored snack rolled into a tube.
  4. A self-made cigarette of tobacco wrapped in rolling paper.
    • I smoke rollups because they are cheaper than buying cigarettes.
    Synonyms:
    rollie
  5. A business technique where multiple small companies in the same market are acquired and merged.
    • In geographic rollups, it's more important to hold on to key employees — and customers — than to realize efficiencies quickly.2013, Annette Risberg, Mergers & Acquisitions: A Critical Reader
  6. A collection of software updates distributed as a single package.
    • Between issuance of service packs, Microsoft released update rollups for Exchange Server on a regular basis […]2014, Michel de Rooij, Jaap Wesselius, Pro Exchange 2013 SP1 PowerShell Administration

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Adjective

roll-up (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being made into a cylinder shape by rolling.
    • a roll-up door
    • a roll-up display banner

Forms of roll-up

pluralroll-ups

Origin of roll-up

Deverbal from roll up.

Questions about roll-up

What does roll-up mean?
Roll-up means capable of being made into a cylinder shape by rolling.
What is roll-up the alternative form of?
Roll-up is the alternative form of rollup.
What part of speech is roll-up?
Roll-up is an adjective.

Words near roll-up in the dictionary

  1. roll-to-roll
  2. roll-top
  3. roll-top desk
  4. roll-top desks
  5. roll-tops
  6. roll-up
  7. roll-ups
  8. roll-your-own
  9. roll-your-owns
  10. Rolla
  11. rollability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roll-up (page history and authors); rollup (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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