around (someone or something)

around (someone or something)

1. Encircling someone or something. You guys don't all need to stand around me—back up!

2. Close to a particular person, place, or thing. I haven't lived around here for very long, so I don't know where any of the good restaurants are.

See also: around

*around someone or something

 

1. enclosing someone or something. (*Typically: be ~; go ~; circle ~.) The white picket fence is around the house and the yard. Jimmy was crying loudly. A ring of children circled around him, singing "Happy Birthday."

2. near someone or something in this vicinity. (*Typically: be ~; hang ~; live ~.) How long have you been around here? I don't like people like that hanging around me.

around

/round the clock

Throughout the entire 24 hours of the day; continuously.