mustering in English

verb

1

assemble (troops), especially for inspection or in preparation for battle.

There will be no holding back by Strange, then, when he musters his troops in September.

synonyms: assemble, mobilize, rally, raise, summon, gather (together), mass, collect, convene, call up, call to arms, recruit, conscript, draft, levy

2

collect or assemble (a number or amount).

he could fail to muster a majority

verb

assemble, mobilize, rally, raise, summon, gather (together), mass, collect, convene, call up, call to arms, recruit, conscript, draft, levy
congregate, assemble, gather together, come together, collect together, convene, mass, rally
summon (up), screw up, call up, rally
come up, summon, muster up, rally

Use "mustering" in a sentence

1. Synonyms & Antonyms of Brigading. as in raising, mustering.

2. Another 40 sailors mustering before boarding Bellona were recruited into the mutiny.

3. I don't want it to look as if the clan was mustering in force.

4. Unfortunately, the difficulty of mustering the parade had been badly miscalculated and it was behind schedule.

5. Synonyms for Arraying include arranging, ordering, ranging, grouping, marshalling, marshaling, placing, positioning, disposing and mustering

6. It employed three R44 helicopter cull platforms in combination with two R22 helicopter spotting/mustering platforms.

7. 26 She was also mustering troops, and planned to lead them northwards to join up with her son.

8. ‘The team ensured that Civilian airliners and local mustering aircraft were kept out of the way of the fast jets.’ ‘The plane was the first Civilian airliner to be hit by insurgents.’ ‘And the 94 working as Civilian staff comprise just 2.8 per cent of the workforce.’

9. 1945, Tom Ronan, Strangers on the Ophir, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 125: He rode back around the common, mustering every mob of horses except those which contained Belled stock.· (heraldry) Having bells (especially around the neck of an animal).··simple past tense and past participle of bell

10. One scholar offers this opinion as to why wine was added: “[The Passover] was to be no longer a solemn annual mustering of male adults; it was to become the occasion for family festivity, in which the drinking of wine found a natural place.” —The Hebrew Passover— From the Earliest Times to A.D. 70, by J.

11. + 19 And he took from the city one court official who was the commissioner over the soldiers, five close associates of the king who were found in the city, as well as the secretary of the chief of the army, the one mustering the people of the land, and 60 men of the common people of the land who were yet found in the city.