get round to

A form of get around to — To eventually begin or return to some task.

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Meanings

verbget round to (third-person singular simple present gets round to, present participle getting round to, simple past got round to, past participle (UK) got round to or (US) gotten round to)

present singular third person gets round to · participle present getting round to · past got round to · UK participle past got round to · US participle past gotten round to

  1. alternativeAlternative form of get around to.

    The pandemic preparation timebomb detonated to devastating effect; a number of other timebombs are on the shortest of fuses. The government has now reached a state of perfect vicious cycle, when the only thing worse than the things it does are all the things it didn’t get round to doing.

    2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian
Cite this entry
APA

get round to. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20round%20to

MLA

“get round to.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20round%20to. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “get round to,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/get%20round%20to.

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