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put sth together

phrasal verb with put
 
 
/pʊt/ verb (present tense putting, past tense and past participle put)

Definition

B2 to put the parts of something in the correct places and join them to each other: I had to put the wardrobe together myself.Connecting and combiningVariety and mixturesMixing and mixtures 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.Collecting and amassing
(Definition of put sth together from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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