From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishput something ↔ together phrasal verb1 COLLECTto prepare or produce something by collecting pieces of information, ideas etc It took all morning to put the proposal together.2 to form people or things into a group We are currently putting together a sales and marketing team.3 MAKEto make a machine, model etc by joining all the different parts SYN assemble I can’t work out how to put this table together.4 more ... than the rest/the others/everything else put togetherCOMPARE used to say that one amount is greater than the total of a set of amounts Paul seemed to have more money than the rest of us put together. → put→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
put together• Federal prosecutors have guarded his identity and role in putting their case together.• Joe was already out of the kitchen and half-way across the yard and Bella began to put the dishes together.• Entwined in all of this is how Torre managed to put it together and keep it together down the stretch.• Dyson sat back and put his finger-tips together, as if about to deliver his verdict.• You could put them together one way, rearrange them another.• When we start to put these words together things start to get a little trickier.• So now put this observation together with the idea that I had been following.• He had trouble putting two words together without putting a dozen or so extra in between. 