0 present participle of join --
2 to get involved in an activity or journey with another person or group: --
The design company is planning to join up with a shoe manufacturer and create a new line of footwear.
The police have joined with (= they have begun to work with) the Drug Enforcement Agency in trying to catch major drug traffickers.
I'm sure everyone will join me in wishing you a very happy retirement (= everyone else will do this too).
If you're buying tickets, please join the queue (= stand at the end of it).
We took the ferry across the Channel and then joined (= got on) the Paris train at Calais.
Why don't you ask your sister if she would like to join us for supper?
3 to become a member of an organization: --
However, conjunctions joining clauses do not mark cases because they do not signal a relationship between a single act and one of its arguments.
Should joining free trade agreements be accompanied by adopting better resource and environmental management practices?
To become a participant observer means developing the knack of joining in and keeping your distance at one and the same time.
Women calypsonians are joining men in the calypso tent and are competing in the same cultural space and commercial marketplace.
This resulted in joining interruptions and overlaps, simple and complex information requests, commands and warnings, and negations and criticisms.
For many, this meant joining the armed gangs that politicians used to assert their authority in return for a few crumbs.
By joining a domain-specific online community, people usually reveal only the part of their identity and expertise that concerns the domain in question.
These 'costs' of joining are taken as seriously as the monetary subscription cost.
