clubbed together

Verb

club together (third-person singular simple present clubs together, present participle clubbing together, simple past and past participle clubbed together)

1. To contribute money jointly with others.
   • A sailing vacation does not need to be expensive, if you club together with friends and share a week's rent of a 10-berth yacht.
2. (broadly) To link up for a particular purpose.
   • It was launched in 2014 (note the unfortunate timing), when six northern cities clubbed together to identify a core network of city-city rail links that would support the economic rebirth of the North.2023 July 12, Jim Steer, “Rail's route to seizing the initiative”, in RAIL, number 987, page 39