synchronize with

synchronize with (someone or something)

1. To occur, operate, or function at the same time as someone or something else. On my signal, we'll synchronize with bravo team and strike the hideouts at exactly the same time. The various machines have to synchronize perfectly with one another in order for the assembly line to function correctly.
2. To coordinate and operate in unison with someone or something else. I want you to synchronize with Sarah on this project so that you are both making progress in tandem. The new app helps you synchronize with your employees around the globe.
See also: synchronize
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

synchronize something with (something else)

to set or adjust something to coordinate its timing with something else. Would you please synchronize your watch with mine? We could never synchronize our schedules so that we could get together.
See also: synchronize
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • synchronize
  • synchronize with (someone or something)
  • replace (someone or something) by (someone or something)
  • replace (someone or something) with (someone or something)
  • replace by
  • be replaced by (someone or something)
  • be replaced with (someone or something)
  • replace
  • lost without
  • lost without (someone or something)
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Perhaps the best part of AnyDay is its ability to synchronize with your existing PIM to keep all of your data up-to-date.
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In the brains of schizophrenia sufferers, electrical activity fails to synchronize with a specific sound frequency as it does in the brains of mentally healthy people, report psychiatrist Robert W.
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