get-together

[ get-tuh-geth-er ]

/ ˈgɛt təˌgɛð ər /

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noun

an informal and usually small social gathering.

a meeting or conference.

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Origin of get-together

First recorded in 1910–15; noun use of verb phrase get together

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How to use get-together in a sentence

As soon as this attack [happened], Paris citizens came together to show were are not afraid, we are Charlie Hebdo.
France Kills Charlie Hebdo Murderers|Nico Hines|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to Life Post-ISIS|Marlow Stern|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In this cockamamie get-rich scheme, would they all issue an apology if he cut a check?
Phylicia Rashad and the Cult of Cosby Truthers|Stereo Williams|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.
The Race for the Ebola Vaccine|Abby Haglage|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST

I liked it because it was like my life coming back together.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Squinty could look out, but the slats were as close together as those in a chicken coop, and the little pig could not get out.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
And that was that if he and his wife were to ever live together again and be happy, the family were to be kept out of it.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
Adequate conception of the extent, the variety, the excellence of the works of Art here heaped together is impossible.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
There were two battalions, together about a thousand men; and they brought a field-piece with them.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various

British Dictionary definitions for get-together

get-together

noun

informal a small informal meeting or social gathering

verb get together (adverb)

(tr) to gather or collect

(intr) (of people) to meet socially

(intr) to discuss, esp in order to reach an agreement

get it together informal

to achieve one's full potential, either generally as a person or in a particular field of activity
to achieve a harmonious frame of mind

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Other Idioms and Phrases with get-together

get together

Accumulate, gather, as in Go get all the firewood together: [c. 1400]

Come together, assemble, as in Let's get together next week. The variant get together with means “meet with someone,” as in I can't get together with them today but I'll have time next week. [Late 1600s]

Arrive at an agreement, as in The jury was unable to get together on a verdict.

get something or oneself together. See under get one's act together.

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