rally

Meaning

Noun

1. A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.
2. A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.
3. A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
4. An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
5. A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)

Verb

1. (transitive) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
2. (intransitive) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble.
3. (ambitransitive) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness.
4. (intransitive) To recover strength after a decline in prices.

Verb

To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.

Opposite of

decline

Synonyms

muster

recover

assemble

recovery

gather

gathering

mass meeting

meeting

congregate

demonstration

rebound

convention

mobilize

enlist

attract

woo

enrol

mobilise

canvass

rallying

recruit

tease

concentrate

come up

banter

unite

recuperation

summon

pick up

assembly

exchange

beat up

concourse

razz

comeback

assemblage

collect

profit

accrue

rag

cod

earn

bait

mock

badinage

obtain

improve

call up

jest

get

Translations

rassemblement

radunare

rallier

raduno

Kundgebung

Rallye

manifestazione

rallye

reunir

ralliement

ράλι

arruolare

ingaggiare

sammeln

anwerben

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹæli/

Etymology

Cognate with French: rallier

In summary

From Middle French rallier (French rallier), from Old French ralier, from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”).