JOIN FORCES (joined forces, joining forces, joins forces)

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Irregular inflected forms: joined forces    , joining forces    , joins forces   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does join forces mean? 

• JOIN FORCES (verb)
  The verb JOIN FORCES has 1 sense:

1. work together on a common enterprise of project

  Familiarity information: JOIN FORCES used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOIN FORCES (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work together on a common enterprise of project

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

collaborate; cooperate; get together; join forces

Context example:

We joined forces with another research group

Hypernyms (to "join forces" is one way to...):

work (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity)

Verb group:

collaborate (cooperate as a traitor)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "join forces"):

collaborate (cooperate as a traitor)

go along; play along (cooperate or pretend to cooperate)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

It may be necessary for us to join forces; if so they can mount our whole party.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If you were really great, really true to yourself, you would join forces with Leach and Johnson.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In the ten days that follow—and beyond—you can make plans to join forces with someone important to you in love or business.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And the more I thought about it the more it appeared that my duty to myself lay in doing what he had advised, lay in joining forces with Johnson and Leach and working for his death.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You will have a gathering of powerful planets in your seventh house of marriage and partnerships of all kinds, including business ones, so clearly, your mind will be squarely on the idea of joining forces with a particular person.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)