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rally | American Dictionary

rally
noun[ C ]
us/ˈræl·i/

rallynoun[C] (MEETING)

a public meeting of a large group of people, esp. to show support for a particular opinion, political party, or sports team:
He helped organize the first national rally against the war.

rallynoun[C] (IMPROVEMENT)

In baseball, a rally is a period during which a team scores a lot of runs (= points), esp. when it has been losing.
rally
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈræl·i/

rallyverb[I/T] (IMPROVE)

to return or bring to a better condition; improve or cause to succeed:
[ I ]Cleveland rallied in the fourth quarter to beat Washington, 111-102.
[ I ]The dollar rallied against the yen in trading today.

rallyverb[I/T] (MEET TOGETHER)

to bring or come together in order to provide support or make a shared effort:
[ I ]African-American groups rallied around the president when he was under attack.

rally | Business English

rally
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈræli/uspluralrallies
STOCK MARKET
a sudden increase in share prices after a period when they have been falling or there has been low activity:
a rally in sthThe shares of gold mining companies were boosted by a rally in bullion prices.
spark/cause/trigger a rallyNews of the retail industry's first-quarter profits triggered a rally in share prices.
stage/enjoy a rallyMajor oil producers staged a rally despite weaker prices for crude oil.
a powerful/sharp/strong rallyAfter a powerful rally last year, stocks have languished for the first quarter of this year.
a market/price/stock rally
a brief/late/early rally
POLITICS
a large public meeting where a lot of people show their support for something:
attend/hold a rallyThe anti-war rally was attended by around 5,000 people.
speak at/address a rally
a campaign/political/protest rally
an election rally
rally
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈræli/us
STOCK MARKET
to improve after a period of falling share prices or of low activity :
The company's stocks rallied after an initial fall.
rally against sthThe pound rallied against the dollar in trading today.
rally from/to sthShares in the retailer rallied to 257p after dropping to 230p last month.
rally (by) 10 points/20%/1p, etc.The Nasdaq rallied 41% to hit 2313.85.
rally sharply/strongly

Examples of rally

rally
The rallying cries of dissent become ever more ethereal and faint.
Enlightened idealism rather than pragmatism motivated others who rallied.
Additional expenses include the maintenance of the head office, and especially the cost of campaigns, rallies, regional seminars, and conventions.
Impressive rallies were held for communal peace and amity after the riot subsided, and working-class fraternity across communal lines has been revived.
The state's dominant discourse of nationalism, familism, national secur ity and developmentalism was hugely successful in rallying the masses behind the dictatorship.
In the last decades, however, autonomy has been fully integrated into the cycle of commerce and so has lost its impetus as a rallying force.
Candidates campaigned via election meetings, rallies and canvassing.
10.00/52.81 18.94); for public rallies, over a quarter of intolerance is generic (16.79/57.78 29.06).
The question of police permits for political rallies remained a point of disagreement, between opposition and government, which was only resolved just before the elections.
They rallied instead to the opposition calls for ' alternance ', irrespective of their core ideological beliefs.
With its vision of belonging, it became the rallying cry of post-war reintegration efforts.
The local associational formation is a rallying organisational and mobilisational platform by which local people are empowered to articulate and pursue collective concerns.
We have seen that even acts such as protest speeches and public rallies prompt blanket rejection by a sizeable percentage of respondents.
In their face-to-face encounters at rallies, less-educated supporters found a means of testing their representatives' commitment and holding them to account.
If statesmen found it impossible to escape ' the logic of imperial security ', political women rallied to their support with growing enthusiasm.
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Collocations withrally

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campaign rally
So, together with campaign rallies held by particular regions, a national campaignrally was established in 2006 to highlight the continued need for this activity.
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