work together

work together (third-person singular simple present works together, present participle working together, simple past and past participle worked together)

1. To be coworkers with someone; to share a workspace with someone.
   • 2003, Kenneth W. Edwards, Your Successful Real Estate Career, p. 175:

     Real estate presents an ideal opportunity to work together with your spouse, if that is what you both want.

   • 2008, Mary Ann Caws, To the Boathouse: A Memoir, p. 66:

     In the years after Wilmington, when I had realized I needed to work, do research, and write, we were working together at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, side by side under the little green lights in the old library that so many of us loved.

2. To cooperate on a project.
   • 2008, Joseph Sterling, Oh Say, Can't You See ...: How America Got Sidetracked, p. 245:

     Americans need to work together if we hope to induce positive change both here and abroad.

3. To function together as parts of a larger process.
   • 1924, Catering Industry Employee, Vol. 33, p. 23:

     Iron and oxygen work together to make red blood.

   • 2006, Vivien Millane, Legal Studies, p. 32:

     The relationship between parliament, subordinate bodies and the courts can be seen as a complementary relationship (where parliament, the subordinate bodies and courts work together to make law).

   • 2014, Spectrum Science, Grade 4, p. 10:

     Like any system, an ecosystem works best when all its parts work together.

• collaborate

• compatible