closely connected with no gaps or wasted parts (of space, time, or writing); compact; terse; well-knit

to make do with; to get by; to use something as a makeshift or substitute in a difficult situation

by chance; fortunately; as luck would have it; happening at the right moment

To go where there is a crowd or excitement; to participate in a lively activity

to assemble or put together objects from scattered fragments; to knock together or rig up

to approach or move closer to something; to lean in towards

to pool money together from multiple people; to collect or raise enough money for a specific purpose

(idiom) to assemble from bits and pieces; to combine items from disparate sources

To reach a required amount or number of people; to make up a shortfall

To participate in a game or activity primarily to please others; to accommodate someone else's taste.

To manage to raise enough money or gather enough people to meet a requirement; to make up a deficiency.

To piece together or assemble something with difficulty from various fragments or sources, such as funds or materials

to club together or pool resources to pay for a group gift or a shared event

to gather or collect people or things together; to scrape together

To manage to come up with or assemble something with difficulty, such as a sum of money or a required amount

to round a number to the nearest whole number or multiple of ten

readily available or convenient to hand, such as having enough money, materials, or people available for a task

To gather together toward one spot; to press near; to move close to each other

To put together various unrelated people or things into a single group; to assemble bits and pieces in a makeshift way

to pool or contribute money and materials to help someone out of a difficulty

happening at an inconvenient time; unfortunately; unluckily

to scrape together or scrounge up bit by bit from various sources; (variant form) to patch together from disparate parts

to make do with; to put up with; to be passable or just good enough

To get together or gather with friends; to socialize in a group

to manage to put together; to make up a set; to round up a number to a convenient multiple

to piece together, gather, or assemble; used in Northern dialects

to serve as a stopgap or make up the required number of people or items

To add an amount to something that is not yet a round number in order to reach a whole or round sum.

To gather people together in order to boost one's courage or lessen fear; used in northern Chinese dialects.

To join in an activity or go along with something just to please others or cater to their tastes

To manage to collect all the parts to form a whole; to find the desired number of things or people required to reach a total.

something made up of various parts or bits gathered together; patchwork

by a stroke of luck; by chance; a lucky coincidence of circumstances

(dialect) a collection of all sorts of things; a jumble or melange

a compact car model

Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS); a large particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) used in physics research

to come together at a single point, like the spokes of a wheel; describes people or things gathering in large numbers

Describes someone who is not skilled enough for a high-level role but is too proud to accept a lower-level one; difficult to satisfy because nothing seems quite right.