gets together

Most of his friends are liberals, he said, and politics is now off the table when his extended family gets together at Christmas.

Some rascal gets together a gang, and seizes the government and plunders its revenue.

When he has plundered too much, some other rascal stirs up the people, and gets together another gang.

These are exactly what they sound like: a party where everyone gets together and signs everyone else's keys.

Twice a year, in spring and fall, everybody gets together to work the cattle at the rodeo, or round-up.

Im on hall bounds until the faculty gets together and decides whether Im to be boiled in oil or merely drawn and quartered.