join forces
Pool your efforts
To join forces is to combine efforts with others toward a shared goal.
The phrase evokes military alliance but applies broadly to any collaboration: The two companies joined forces to develop the technology.
Environmental groups joined forces against the pipeline.
- collaborateWork jointly with others
- team upForm a working alliance
- cooperateWork jointly with others
- pool resourcesCombine for mutual benefit
- allySupportive partner
pull together · strength in numbers · partner · work together · side by side · unite · solidarity · coalition · make common cause · common ground · combine · band together · circle the wagons · coordinate · close ranks · federation · unify · mobilize
- collective actionunite, team up, mobilization, movement, protest
- joiningattach, fasten, connect, bind, link
- teamworkteamwork, co-op mode, collaborate, team games, assists
- involvementparticipate, participation, involvement, take part, engagement
- close ranksunity, solidarity, band together, stand together, rally
- supportsupport, emotional support, moral support, support group, stand by
join forcespart ways
Mutually go separate directions
split up · go it alone · separate · break apart · disband
join forcesoppose
Act against something
turn against · declare war · combat · defect · betray
force, join, forced, joined, enforce, joining, forces, reinforce, enforced