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Join Forces

Definition: Join Forces

Join Forces

Verb

1. 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 Forces

Synonyms: collaborate (v), cooperate (v), get together (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Join Forces

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Modern Usage: Join Forces

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Why would I join forces with a pathetic human? (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Join Forces

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality (reference)

  • Exabyte and Ecrix Join Forces [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Flextronics and Xerox Join Forces [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Join Forces

SubjectTopicQuote

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Join Forces

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Swiftly increasing numbers of armed men from the North crossed the borders to join forces that were already in the South.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: Join Forces

Expression using "join forces": join forces with. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Join Forces

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

   

Portuguese

  

unir forças (join forces with). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

a-şi uni puterea cu (join forces with). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

unirse contra (join forces with, take on). (various references)

   

Thai

  

รวมกำลังกับ (join forces with). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

об'"днати сили. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Join Forces

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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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