assembleverb
uk/əˈsem.bəl/us/əˈsem.bəl/assemble verb (GATHER)
C2 [ I or T ] to come together in a single place or bring parts together in a single group:
We assembled in the meeting room after lunch.
to assemble data
At the staff meeting, the manager told the assembled company (= everyone there) that no one would lose their job.
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- Within hours of the tragedy happening, an emergency rescue team had been assembled.
- He gazed once more around the room, where his entire family were assembled.
- Over 50,000 people assembled in the main square.
- He came out onto the balcony to speak to the crowd that had assembled outside.
- Everyone is assembling outside the cathedral, ready for the Remembrance Day parade.
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Collecting and amassing
- a pack rat idiom
- accumulate
- amass
- bank
- blackberry
- bunch
- collect
- compilation
- concentration
- garner
- gather
- glean
- harvest
- load up on sth
- magpie
- numismatics
- philatelist
- philately
- scrape
- store
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assemble verb (JOIN)
C2 [ T ] to make something by joining separate parts:
furniture that is easy to assemble
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Connecting and combining
- abut
- adjoin
- aggregate
- allied
- amalgamate
- assemblage
- bind
- conjunction
- dovetail
- eclectic
- entwine
- fuse
- fusion
- hand to hand idiom
- lump sb/sth together
- marriage
- marry
- meld
- merge
- mesh
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