put sth together
— phrasal verb with put uk/pʊt/us/pʊt/verb present participle putting, past tense and past participle put
B2 to put the parts of something in the correct places and join them to each other:
It took several hours to put the puzzle together.
C1 to prepare a piece of work by collecting several ideas and suggestions and organizing them:
The management are putting together a plan/proposal/package to rescue the company.
It takes about three weeks to put the magazine together.
More examples
- If you put the pieces of wood together, you can make a fort.
- We put the tables together so that everyone could sit together.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Connecting and combining
- abut
- adjoin
- aggregate
- allied
- amalgamate
- assemblage
- bind
- conjunction
- desegregate
- dovetail
- eclectic
- entwine
- fuse
- fusion
- linkage
- lump sb/sth together
- marriage
- marry
- meld
- merge
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Collecting and amassing
put together
said after a phrase that refers to a group of people or things to show that you are thinking of them as a group rather than separately:
She earns more than all the rest of us put together.
The population of the US is bigger than that of Britain, France, and Germany put together.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Acting, being or existing together
- accompanying
- accord
- allied
- ally
- along
- alongside
- as one man idiom
- bosom
- en masse
- formation
- gang
- gang up
- hand in glove idiom
- joint
- partnership
- put their heads together idiom
- stand together
- swarm
- synergy
- tandem
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