To work cooperatively as a group, especially under pressure, or to assemble various elements into a whole.
To work as a team and help each other, especially when things are hard.
2 meanings, ordered from most common to least. Color-coded by CEFR level.
To cooperate and work as a united group, especially in a crisis.
"If we all pull together, we can finish the project before the deadline."
We have to pull together as a nation.
— Commonly used phrase in wartime speeches; associated with Winston Churchill's wartime rhetoric, 1940s
To collect or organise various pieces of information, resources, or materials into a coherent whole.
"She spent the weekend pulling together all the data for the annual report."
To pull on a rope together — naturally extended to collective effort.
To work as a team and help each other, especially when things are hard.
The intransitive sense ('we must pull together') is a common motivational phrase, especially in crises. The transitive sense ('pull together a report') means to assemble or organise something. Both are common in British and American English.
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