Meaning of combine In English

• 0 to (cause to) exist together, or join together to make a single thing or group:

  • None of us has much money so let's combine what we've got.

  • Sickness, combined with (= together with) terrible weather, contrived to ruin the trip.

  • The two countries combined against their common enemy.

  • [ + to infinitive ] These normally harmless substances combine to form a highly poisonous gas.

  • As a writer, he combined wit and/with passion.

  • She manages to successfully combine family life and/with a career.

• 1 a group of people or organizations acting together in business:

  • a Japanese industrial combine

• 2 a large farming machine that cuts the plant, separates the seed from the stem, and cleans the grain as it moves across a field

• 3 to unite or to join together to make a single thing or group:

  • [ T ] None of us has much money so let’s combine what we’ve got.

  • [ + to infinitive ] When hydrogen and oxygen molecules combine to form water, heat and electricity are produced.

  • [ T ] She manages to successfully combine motherhood and a career.

• 4 a group of people or organizations acting together:

  • Over the years they established a large media combine.

• 5 to join together in order to make a single thing or group, or to join things together in this way:

  • They have a much better chance of success if they combine forces.

  • combine with sth It was the first time in Britain that a concrete producer had combined with a cement manufacturer.

• 6 to join together to have a particular effect, or to join things together in this way:

  • combine with sth The burden of bad loans has combined with government foot-dragging to slow the pace of modernization.

  • combine sth with sth He said the plan should be combined with tax cuts, including a reduction in business rates.

• 7 to have two different parts or qualities:

  • combine sth with sth The supercentre combines a traditional store with a full-service grocery section.

  • combine sth and sth This is the beer that best combines good taste and a low calorie count.

• 8 a group of people or organizations that work together in business:

  • The acquisition would create a combine publishing five of the six national daily newspapers in the Netherlands.