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Definition: Join Forces |
Join ForcesVerb1. Work together on a common enterprise of project; "The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well"; "We joined forces with another research group". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Join ForcesSynonyms: collaborate (v), cooperate (v), get together (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concurrence | Verb: concur, conduce, conspire, contribute; agree, unite; hang together, pull together, join forces, make common cause. |
Cooperation | Conduce; combine, unite one;s efforts; keep together, draw together, pull together, club together, hand together, hold together, league together, band together, be banded together; pool; stand shoulder to shoulder, put shoulder to shoulder; act in concert, join forces, fraternize, cling to one another, conspire, concert, lay one;s heads together; confederate, be in league with; collude, understand one another, play into the hands of, hunt in couples. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Why would I join forces with a pathetic human? (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The two test cells have been upgraded for engines up to 68,000 pounds thrust and a third test cell added for 100,000-pound thrust engines in 1998. The company plans to join forces with OEMs to set up aircraft repair support facilities. (references) | |
Sempra Energy International, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, PG&E Corporation, and Mexico's Proxima Gas, S.A. de C.V., will join forces to build the North Baja pipeline, a US$230 million, 212-mile natural gas transportation pipeline to serve growing demand in Baja California, Mexico. (references) | ||
Economic History | New Zealand | Some U.S. firms do choose, for their own strategic reasons, to join forces with established New Zealand firms to jointly manufacture and market their products. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Swiftly increasing numbers of armed men from the North crossed the borders to join forces that were already in the South. |
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Expression using "join forces": join forces with. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "join forces"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 團結 (rally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lyöttäytyä yhteen (band together, combine), liittoutua (ally themselves, be leagued together, form an alliance, gang up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sich vereinigen (assemble, blend, coalesce, combine, fuse, fuze, join, link, meet, merge, unite), sich verbinden (be associated, be evoked, coalesce, combine, join, join together, unite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνεργάζομαι (co operate, collaborate, cooperate, pull together). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | összefog (bracket, clamp, to bracket, to clamp, to colligate, to cramp, to join with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 組になる (to cooperate with, to join forces with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くみになる (to cooperate with, to join forces with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oinjay orcesfay unir forças (join forces with). (various references) a-şi uni puterea cu (join forces with). (various references) unirse contra (join forces with, take on). (various references) รวมกำลังกับ (join forces with). (various references) об'"днати сили. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-i-j-n-o-o-r-s" | |
-2 letters: coinfers, conifers, forensic, fornices. | |
-3 letters: coiners, coinfer, cojoins, cojones, confers, conifer, cronies, erosion, joiners, orceins, recoins, rejoins. | |
-4 letters: censor, coiner, cojoin, confer, conies, cooers, cosier, cosine, crones, croons, ficoes, foison, forces, fresco, icones, infers, irones, jocose, joiner, nooser, nosier, orcein, orcins, orison, oscine, recoin, recons, rejoin, roscoe, senior, sooner. | |
-5 letters: ceros, cines, cions, cires. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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