Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - put together

1. If you put something together, you join its different parts to each other so that it can be used. He took it apart brick by brick, and put it back together again... The factories no longer relied upon a mechanic to put together looms within the plant. = assemble PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron) 2. If you put together a group of people or things, you form them into a team or collection. It will be able to put together a governing coalition... He is trying to put a team together for next season. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P 3. If you put together an agreement, plan, or product, you design and create it. We wouldn’t have time to put together an agreement... We got to work on putting the book together. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P see also put 14