0 present participle of rally
1 to (cause to) come together in order to provide support or make a shared effort:
Supporters/Opponents of the new shopping development are trying to rally local people in favour of/against it.
The president has called on the people to rally to/behind the government.
[ + obj + to infinitive ] The general rallied his forces to defend the town.
"Workers of the world unite!" was their rallying cry/call (= a phrase said to encourage support).
This is a rallying cry rather than an admission of defeat, however, and research proceeds apace.
The rallying cries of dissent become ever more ethereal and faint.
Phrases of the melody accompany the activities of the factory workers, interrupting their work and acting as a rallying call to revolt.
Their rallying cries were urgent and so often repeated that echoes can still be heard today, but the anticipated revolution and revelation never arrived.
In the last decades, however, autonomy has been fully integrated into the cycle of commerce and so has lost its impetus as a rallying force.
With its vision of belonging, it became the rallying cry of post-war reintegration efforts.
Each provided a variety of venues for rallying one's peers to a cause, in short for establishing a reputation for leadership.
Others have pointed to the fact that it remains a vital concept, even a rallying point, in certain fields such as musicology and politics.
