I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an employee joins a company/firm etc
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Employees who join the firm after April receive a percentage of the annual bonus.
enter/go into/join a profession
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Hugh intended to enter the medical profession.
enter/join the race
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There was speculation that another candidate might enter the race.
join a band
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He took up the saxophone and joined the school band.
join a cabinet
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Lee was considered a likely candidate to join the cabinet.
join a club
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I decided to join the computer club.
join a coalition
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The Greens of Slovenia agreed to join the coalition led by the Liberal Democratic party.
join a committee
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I was invited to join a committee to plan the summer carnival.
join a company (= become an employee )
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I joined the company ten years ago.
join a demonstration
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They were prevented by police from joining the demonstration.
join a firm
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He joined the firm when he was in his early twenties.
join a gang
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He was only eight when he joined the gang.
join a group
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He joined a self-help group for divorced men.
join a party
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Bloomfield joined the Communist Party in 1946.
join a queue
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He went back inside to join the queue for the toilets.
join hands (= take hold of the hands of people on either side of you )
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They stood in a circle and joined hands.
join in the celebrations
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You’re welcome to come and join in the celebrations!
join in the fun
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The whole village joined in the fun.
join the army
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At 18, I decided to join the army.
join the forces (= become a soldier, sailor etc )
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He was too young to join the forces when the war broke out.
join the motorway (= get on the motorway )
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Traffic will be diverted through Hamilton before joining the motorway.
join the staff
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Kelly Jones has joined the staff as a medical secretary.
joined the dole queue
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As two factories closed today, 500 people joined the dole queue .
joined the navy
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He joined the navy during the war.
join/enter the fray
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The other soldiers quickly joined the fray, launching missile attacks in the city.
join/go into the services
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Maybe you should join the services.
join...union
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Are you planning to join the union ?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
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The church sends an invitation to any who do not belong to a particular church, but would like to join in .
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It invited him to join in , and he did.
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The grunts joined in with their rifles.
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A woman may turn to bottle-feeding to give him a chance to join in .
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My ears rang with the loud but muffled popping as my door gunners joined in with the rest.
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Perdita had rather a reedy voice, but she insisted on joining in .
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My role will be to join in with you, so I have asked Mark Drake to lead the meeting.
together
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As a result some of the hill farms are being joined together - amalgamated - and farm labourers are becoming unemployed.
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This determines how the pieces of steel meeting at that connection are joined together .
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The emission or absorption of one particle by another corresponds to the dividing or joining together of strings.
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Big business joined together to form a climate change coalition to lobby successfully against the protocol.
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There is a process of two individuals joining together to form a new life, often personified by children.
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Two whole beings, joined together .
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A girder is a beam that supports other beams or is made up of separate beams joined together .
■ NOUN
army
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They travel throughout the Empire, joining armies as they march to battle.
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When the Civil War broke out, Walker tried to join the Army as a surgeon.
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So she joins the army to be near him.
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They hadn't joined the army for a career as he had.
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It was as unthinkable now as their joining the army .
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But he had always had a wish to join the Army , and at sixteen he enlisted as a drummer boy.
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Arthur says that he is joining the army so that by his going away no one else will have to leave Hayslope.
band
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To top it all off, a girl wants to join the band !
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They will go on to join the Royal Marines Band Service after musical training.
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An expected crowd of 250 will join Latin Jazz band Manteca and guests in a champagne toast at midnight.
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In 1988 he joined Abdullah Ibrahim's band , Ekaya, and spent two years with it.
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He joined the Ellington band following the final departure of Sonny Greer from 1951-3.
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My parents had moved to the outskirts of Glasgow and I joined the local pipe band and met Duncan McIntyre.
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She knew Scathach's quest was for Bavduin, but he was not himself Jaguthin; he had merely joined the band .
club
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Not now belonging to any Particular golf club , joining the Seniors was something I greatly looked forward to.
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In 1998, when two expansion clubs join the majors, the formula would have to be changed.
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Mere are clubs to join , local sports centres to visit.
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The format was an 18-hold shotgun four-ball with ladies and gentlemen from both clubs joining in the festivities.
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Simon beach club and joined the foreigners ogling the floor show at the Casino du Liban.
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Already nearly 400 clubs have applied to join the scheme.
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At international level, such local support is subordinated to the national reputation and hooligan fans from different clubs will join forces.
company
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Her appearance in a charity performance led to an offer to join the Bancrofts' company at the Haymarket Theatre.
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The senior teacher, Gerd Larsen, joined the company in 1944.
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He joined the company in 1960 when asked him to set up the Company's first electrical department.
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Ian had been Group Financial Controller since he joined the company in 1989.
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Charlie graduated from high school and went into the service for four years before joining the company in 1970.
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Wirral-born Mike joined the company in 1979 from Newcastle University where he gained a chemical engineering degree.
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Truitte stayed on, and five months later Horton asked him if he was interested in joining the company .
family
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So I say nothing to Anna; instead I quietly join her family for a meal.
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When Joe was asked to join the First Family each year for Christmas dinner, it posed a dilemma.
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Mr Elton joined the family at the week-end ... and the stage was set for tragedy.
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He joined the family business after his graduation in 1988.
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If anyone had told her then that one day she would join the royal family she would have run a mile.
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When I accepted the scholarship, I joined a family .
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I joined the family for a meal of fried onions and what tasted like chicken.
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The house was already emptying as one person after another set off to join their families .
force
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He joined the Royal Air Force during the war, after which he settled in London.
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Two younger sisters have also joined the force .
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Members of the Northern Regional Health Authority have backed proposals to create seven powerful purchasing authorities by allowing districts to join forces .
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The joining of forces of the young and old represents a literal means of reconnecting tenses.
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This encourages parents to have more children, increasing population growth, impoverishing families and preventing women from joining the labour force .
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That same year, several prevention organizations decided to join forces .
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It was bad enough that his daughter was rebelling, but here was his own wife joining forces with her.
group
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So we joined a self-help group for parents of young gamblers.
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She joined a prayer group that met weekly to read and reflect on the Scriptures.
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I tried joining another group , this time for compulsive eaters.
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After Claire joined a consciousness-raising group , she began to use the word quite freely.
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Inmates had the chance to join special groups for music, drama, dance and art.
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Before I joined the village group , I was afraid of every-thing.
others
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A solitary horse, if given the chance, will always try and join others .
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Hi Man wanted to join them; others wanted to join him.
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No limits are in force and such students simply join the others already on the modules of their choice.
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In the long run, Begin could join forces with others in the far-right to challenge Likud.
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Outside, another blossom fell from a tree, to join the others on the pavement.
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It just looked me over closely, then flew into the roost in the pines to join the others .
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We have to rush to join the others in our foursome.
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Ask him to join Donna and some others to do it.
party
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He's joined the Liberal Party , and now he's a very important cog in the cabinet.
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Movie star Tom Mix, filming on location in nearby Bishop, rode over with a mariachi band and joined the party .
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Suddenly I remembered my weekly shower and hurried to join the ragged party which was forming outside.
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Mitford joined the Communist Party and met and fell in love with Treuhaft.
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Chris Patten has now joined me as a party chairman held responsible for winning an election by running a bad campaign!
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Mike Foster, a former Democrat who joined the Republican Party .
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It will be the same now - everyone says they were either forced to join the Party , or were never members.
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When piano music joins the party , white-gloved hands dance over piano keys until both are lost in a swirl of color.
queue
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They had travelled to Berlin merely in order to join the queue of refugees trying to get home.
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It's because I didn't join the queue .
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Armed with a fistful of papers you now have to join the queue to fetch the elusive gadget.
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I signed more pieces of paper and went downstairs to join the queue outside the clothing store.
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Well-if I wanted to join the queue to sign on for work, I needed an address first.
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Outright batsmen joined the queue , and the supposedly slow bowlers were marking out what looked like suspiciously long run-ups.
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Edward Woodward is the latest star to join the queue for the confessional.
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Maggie joined the short queue in front of him.
team
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Stock library photographers Ethel Davis and Tom Mackie join the team for a course on new business.
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He is scheduled to join the team in Calgary late today if his back is feeling up to it.
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Prost has a clause in his contract that excludes Senna from joining the Williams team .
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Shortly after joining his or her team , our new employee will experience the first of many team meetings.
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When the reply came it was to ask us to consider joining the team in September 1992!
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At this level of grantsmanship, one must join a team of experts to write a winning proposal.
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He joined the team at Bury in 1982 as administration manager.
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He joined the Norton works team in 1955.
union
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The closed shop: Mr Fowler said the legislation would guarantee people the freedom to decide whether or not to join a union .
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On paper, the Wagner Act, passed in 1935, does grandly declare there is a right to join unions .
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The idea was to encourage people to join a union - not ban them if they couldn't.
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Can a teacher be forced to join a union ?
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Employees can't be forced to join a Union against their will.
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I went down to the union and they told me I got to be working before I could join the union.
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They must join the existing unions and fight through them.
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Any musician who is seriously embarking on a career in the music business should join the Musicians' Union .
■ VERB
ask
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Presumably on the basis that it could not involve James, she had asked him to join them for supper.
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I asked Joey to join us as well, since it was not his sabbath, but he declined.
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Powell has enormous respect would be asking him to reconsider joining the ticket to dramatically increase Sen.
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Then I was asked to join the small group selected to meet the Royal personage in attendance, the Duchess of Gloucester.
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When Joe was asked to join the First Family each year for Christmas dinner, it posed a dilemma.
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It was he who asked Waltz to join him in running the Schaubu hne.
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She was relieved and flattered not to have been asked to join them.
invite
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Just tell them the score and invite them to join your cub.
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The fact that it was invited to join a coalition marks the crowning achievement of its crusade to achieve political respectability.
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It invited him to join in, and he did.
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Riders are also being invited to join a mass ride-in to the show on Wednesday February 2.
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He quit, and even when the club subsequently invited Bloch to join , Watson did not return.
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About a dozen men climbed aboard, and I was invited to join them.
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The fraternity invites us to join the fun every year, but only because it has to.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
join the club
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ButIdid not come to Mitford to join the club and sit by the pool.
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He needs six points tonight in Orlando to join the club .
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If you're confused, join the club !
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If you have, then join the club .
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Scholar also revealed details of Venables's contract when he joined the club as manager from Barcelona.
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To join the club simply send your name and address to us at the address below.
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Well, they can join the club .
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When she had finally confirmed that Patricia Hoskin had never joined the club , Blanche made an excuse and left.
join the mile high club
join/combine forces (with sb/sth)
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In 1995 the Oxford and Nairobi teams joined forces .
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In addition, three Askews' reps will combine forces with Chivers' force of two, to represent Chivers to libraries.
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It's obvious: I've got to join forces with Ace.
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It was bad enough that his daughter was rebelling, but here was his own wife joining forces with her.
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Last year the Guardian joined forces with the international campaign to free poor countries from debt.
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So some foreign houses are joining forces with local brokers.
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The better option is for you to join forces with several of your fellow employees and then meet with your manager.
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Will convinces the pair not to eat them, but instead join forces in the hunt for the pirates and their captives.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Join the sleeve and the shoulder parts together.
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Join the two pieces of wood using a strong glue.
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2000 people joined the library last year.
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A lot of people want to join , so there's a long waiting list.
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Any child wanting to join the after-school club should see Mrs Williams.
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Doctors had to use a metal rod to join the two pieces of bone together.
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During the war he joined the Air Corps and became a pilot.
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Eight new members are expected to join .
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He joined the navy when he was 16.
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Her parents are going to Paris next week and she will join them later.
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It is not known if the other parties will join the peace talks.
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The advertising campaign is trying to persuade people to join the armed forces
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The pipes join right over here.
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The wooden buildings are joined by ivy-covered walkways.
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They met at the spot where the creek joins the river.
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We're sitting over there. Why don't you join us?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the Lakers, 4-1 since he joined them, have claimed victories in 11 of 13 to reach 28-19 overall.
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At the age of twenty-three, Bernard persuaded four of his brothers and twenty-seven friends to join the Cistercian order.
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He did join , hoping to reform the church before it deformed him.
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In 1933 Princess Victoria joined the royal Yacht from this quay.
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In each the primitive, sometimes bestial is joined obdurately to the modern and sophisticated.
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In lieu of a dance, you can always ask that cute girl or guy to join you for a duet.
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There appears to be substantial numbers of people who join or leave, become active or inactive, over time.
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Why should we join in and help them to unite against us?
II. noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
if you can't beat 'em, join 'em
join/combine forces (with sb/sth)
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In 1995 the Oxford and Nairobi teams joined forces .
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In addition, three Askews' reps will combine forces with Chivers' force of two, to represent Chivers to libraries.
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It's obvious: I've got to join forces with Ace.
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It was bad enough that his daughter was rebelling, but here was his own wife joining forces with her.
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Last year the Guardian joined forces with the international campaign to free poor countries from debt.
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So some foreign houses are joining forces with local brokers.
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The better option is for you to join forces with several of your fellow employees and then meet with your manager.
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Will convinces the pair not to eat them, but instead join forces in the hunt for the pirates and their captives.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Every wooden join was tongue and groove reinforced with knotted rope.
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The leaf tracing is then pasted on to the assembly so that the centre vein coincides with the join .
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They are then cut by one of the several methods to effect a good join .