to band together
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3.1
- phrasal verb
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- To combat the problem, area wheat growers banded together in the early 1970s.
- communities band together
- band together to fight
- band together to form
And so I think that parents need to just band together and, and exercise their rights.
- And so I think that parents need to just band together and, and exercise their rights.
- So males have this ability to band together to guard the group in intergroup warfare.
- For instance, when a number of these hyenas band together and they they steal, they take a risk and steal the kill.
- Well, now the employees who remain at least from the East Coast branch of the office, some of them have banded together to make their new company, Phoenix PC.
- Now, knowing your own work on CHIMPS, CHIMPS will band together and do patrol parties and raid other chimp groups and kill them off.
- If the siblings could just band together against the narcissistic parent or if the colleagues could band together against the narcissistic leader.
- So let's just all band together and make better purchasing decisions together and you know, root for a positive change with this.
- I wish that the remaining billionaires and millionaires had any modicum of decency or morals would band together.
- Here's what I think we should unite and do we need to band together to bring back granny panties and uncircumcised cocks.
Examples
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So Peynado and fellow residents banded together to stave off what could become the high price of popularity.
Academic text (2006) -
We are strongest when we all band together.
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And so I think that parents need to just band together and, and exercise their rights.
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Just women, when they band together, it's really beautiful.
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Thus, it is important for us to band together as teachers in our efforts to improve education.
Academic text (1992) -
Let's band together and defeat him once and for all.
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This young girl started a movement, a movement of ordinary women banding together to build peace.
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People of all faiths often have to band together to seek justice and respect in the wider culture.
Academic text (2015) -
In addition to supporting each other in emergencies, they banded together when they collectively faced a problem.
Academic text (1996) -
Let's band together and defeat him once and for all.
Synonyms
∞
2.1
To join people or things into one group for a shared purpose
∞
1.0
Connect two things so they become attached
728
2.7
To do something with other people to reach the same goal
543
3.3
To work together with other people to reach the same goal
274
2.7
Join with others to work for the same goal
159
3.7
To get better after an illness or problem
133
2.7
Stay together and help each other during hard times
118
2.8
To bring people together for a meeting or activity
95
2.5
Join with other people or groups to work together on a goal
90
3.4
Keep parts or people joined and working as one
70
1.9
Come together in a group near someone or something
65
3.7
To bring people or things together into one group
57
3.4
To work together with others to achieve a common goal
50
3.4
Gather people or things and organize them to reach a goal
33
3.4
To join others to support the same cause
30
4.1
To come together to support someone in a hard time
24
2.7
To work together with others for the same goal
15
7.4
Come together to form one group or whole
9
4.4
Come together to support each other in hard times
5
3.8
To come together and support the same cause
2
3.0
People and animals come together in a group for safety or shared interest
2
4.1
To stay united and help each other in hard times
2
3.9
Make people or groups work closely together as one
1
3.5
To make people feel united by a shared goal or feeling
1
3.9
To come together to help someone or a cause
1
7.9
To join together with others to form a group for a common purpose
1
6.1
To join with others to form a group for a common purpose
1
4.6
To join with others to reach a common goal
How United
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to unite' is directly derivable from combining 'band' (to bind or fasten) with 'together' (acting jointly): essentially 'bind together' = join/unite. This is a common compositional pattern in English (and occurs in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Band together comes from the image of a band — a tight group or a strip that ties things — and being together. One simple picture is people joining tightly like a band, so band together means 'to join with others to act or to support each other'.