Meaning & use
Marshaling
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Gathering, organizing, and arranging people or things, typically for a coordinated effort or inspection (present participle of marshal).
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The general spent the morning marshaling troops along the border.
The professor is marshaling evidence for her next research paper.
A note on using this word
The single-'l' spelling 'marshaling' is standard American English, while British English typically doubles the consonant as 'marshalling.'
Words with a similar meaning
organizingassembling
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Words with an opposite meaning
scatteringdisorganizing
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