Definition of Rally

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Definition of Rally

Rally

To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.

To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.

To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.

The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word).

A political mass meeting.

To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire.

To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment.

Good-humored raillery.

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Rally Quotations

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Douglas MacArthur

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.
Bill O'Reilly

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
Daniel Webster

I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible.
Tony Campolo

I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.
Anita Loos

When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important.
Studs Terkel

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
Friedrich Schiller

What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.
Theodor Herzl

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
John McCarthy

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.
Joe Barton

Rally Translations

rally in French is rallient, rallier, rallye, rallions, ralliez
rally in German is Sternenfahrt, Treffen
rally in Swedish is samla, retas med, rally

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