Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An infectious disease of poultry and pigeons characterized by inflammation of and mucous discharge from the mouth and eyes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
roop . - To sell by outcry for bids; sell at public auction; auction.
- noun A sale of goods by outcry; a public auction.
- noun An infectious disease of the respiratory passages of poultry, closely similar in character and origin to catarrh in man, but more virulent and rapid in its progress, and very commonly fatal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb Scot. To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction.
- noun Scot. An outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction.
- noun A disease in poultry. See
Pip .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
infectious disease ofpoultry caused by Trichomonas gallinae - verb To cry or shout
- verb Scotland To sell by auction.
- noun An outcry.
- noun Scotland A sale of goods by auction.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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After the roup, that is the sale, of his crop was over, Burns, in one of his letters, describes the scene that took place within and without his house.
Robert Burns John Campbell Shairp 1852
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The cases of type, the presses, the ink-rollers, the damp proof-sheets -- chiefly of bills announcing public meetings or the "roup" of some bankrupt farmer's stock -- filled me with wonder and delight.
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Rabine started Rabine Paving at 18 and is now the Founder and CEO of the Rabine Group, a roup of small companies serving facilities managers across America, and delivering maintenance and construction services of parking lots and roofs.
Job Creators Alliance: Job Creation Should Be Government's Focus, Not Regulations Job Creators Alliance 2012
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The troop increases come a month after Somali militant g roup al Shabaab launched a bloody attack on the Ugandan capital, which the militants said was retaliation for Ugandan involvement in Mogadishu.
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In January, Mr. Dibelius drew more fire after he told a g roup of students that banks "do not have an obligation to promote the public good."
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He watched the whole thing, from when Smythe-Wesson sliced up the first g roup of Solids to the decapitation of the volcano and the treelike Solids of the wedding party, to the burial of the catseye stones.
Massage 2010
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" When you have this large speculative exposure built up, you do run a risk, " said Tim Evans , a commodity analyst at Citi Futures Perspective, a commodity-research arm of Citig roup.
Commodities Whipsaw Investors Carolyn Cui 2010
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I did not feel I had the right to go to or change ph\yscians–must stay within a certain g roup.
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With thrilling immediacy, Humbert's book guides us through the first stumbling steps of what became known as the Musée de l'Homme roup, a disparate cell of writers, linguists, historians and social gadflies led by a charismatic Polish ethnographer, Boris Vildé.
Books on Economic History, War, Resistance, and Civil Rights reviewed this week Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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With thrilling immediacy, Humbert's book guides us through the first stumbling steps of what became known as the Musée de l'Homme roup, a disparate cell of writers, linguists, historians and social gadflies led by a charismatic Polish ethnographer, Boris Vildé.
Archive 2008-11-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
yarb commented on the word roup
'When they crossed over the burn and turned into the road that led back to the farmhouse they found the dykes plastered with intimations of a sale of live stock. "Ah, it's a roup! Old Mr. Gumley must be dead, poor soul!" And indeed the road was lined with farmers' gigs, paint and brass-work blazing with the evening light till they looked like fiery chariots that would presently lift to heaven.'
- Rebecca West, The Judge
July 23, 2009