Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - assemble

(assembles, assembling, assembled) 1. When people assemble or when someone assembles them, they come together in a group, usually for a particular purpose such as a meeting. There wasn’t even a convenient place for students to assemble between classes... Thousands of people, mainly Zulus, assembled in a stadium in Thokoza... He has assembled a team of experts to handle queries... = gather VERB: V, V in/at n, V n 2. To assemble something means to collect it together or to fit the different parts of it together. Greenpeace managed to assemble enough boats to waylay the ship at sea... VERB: V n