0 past simple and past 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: --
Here, for example, she examines the conversion narratives of those who joined the organisation.
When family members joined the interviews, the same explanations were given and the same consent obtained.
A set of robot modules are joined together to form a complete parallel robot assembly.
Landowners joined in as patrons of voluntary societies.
Note that if a pair of vertices is joined by two rainbow paths then they have the same length.
They particularly threatened the economic security of the typical widow, a woman with no holdings of her own who had joined her husband's patronym group.
Although clinicians have been increasingly concerned with environmental health threats, only recently have their ranks been joined by geoscientists, in an internationally organized way.
Many physicians have now joined the ranks of politicians and political leaders.
