put together a team

Meaning

This expression means to assemble, organize, or select a group of people to work together on a specific project, task, or department. It implies choosing members based on their skills and roles to achieve a common goal. It is widely used in project management and corporate environments.

Examples

• We need to put together a team of developers to build the new app.

  We need to put together a team of developers to build the new app.

• She was asked to put together a team for the upcoming marketing campaign.

  She was asked to put together a team for the upcoming marketing campaign.

• It took us two weeks to put together a team that had all the necessary skills.

  It took us two weeks to put together a team that had all the necessary skills.

• Management is planning to put together a team to handle customer complaints.

  Management is planning to put together a team to handle customer complaints.

• He did an excellent job putting together a team for the merger project.

  He did an excellent job putting together a team for the merger project.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ We need to put up a team for the new project.

  ✓ We need to put together a team for the new project.

  'Put up' can mean to tolerate or to construct physically. To assemble a group of people, the correct phrasal verb is 'put together'.

• ✗ They put together a team of the project.

  ✓ They put together a team for the project.

  Use the preposition 'for' (or 'to do something') to describe the purpose or target of the team, rather than 'of'.

Related Expressions

Practice

• The manager wants to ___ to design the new website.

  💡 assemble a group

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  put together a team

• It's hard to ___ when everyone is already so busy.

  💡 organize a group of people

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  put together a team