join battle

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   engage in a conflict

   “The battle over health care reform was joined”

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Questions about join battle

What does join battle mean?

join battle means "engage in a conflict".

Is join battle a common word?

join battle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.