assemble

/əˈsembl/ verb

Definition

GROUP [I, T] › to join other people somewhere to make a group, or to bring people together into a group: They assembled in the meeting room after lunch.

BUILD [T] › to build something by joining parts together

(Definition of assemble verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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