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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rallying point
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Pittston coal strike served as a rallying point for organized labor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A rallying point was needed and, for Tillyard, one was found in the golden age of the Elizabethan world.
▪ If nothing else, the formula code gave protesters an effective rallying point.
▪ It also then serves as the logical rallying point for quality and productivity.
▪ Like Nelson Mandela later, he became a symbol and a rallying point.
▪ The flag was still with us, and one or two of our regimental officers made it a rallying point.
▪ To many, the springbok was transformed from a symbol of apartheid into a new rallying point for a reconciled nation.
Wiktionary
rallying point

n. 1 A cause, symbol, or a place that may unite a fragmented group or persons opposing each over in other matters. 2 (context military English) A designated area for troops to concentrate upon; a sign marking such area

WordNet
rallying point

n. a point or principle on which scattered or opposing groups can come together

Usage examples of "rallying point".

He sends immediately for the National Agent and gravely informs him that this head-dress, borrowed from the guillotined, is a rallying point for anti-revolutionaries, whereupon, the next day, wigs are denounced at the Commune-council, and suppressed.

The man leapt across the hole, breaking free of a ring of Zhents, and raced toward a banner that had been set alight as a rallying point.

Gurgi, silent and shivering in his huge jacket, drove the banner of the White Pig into the frozen ground to mark a rallying point.

If he could liberate Serena Butler, Iblis would make her into a rallying point, the figurehead of a great movement against Omnius.

The Elishite Celebration is rapidly becoming a rallying point for any group interested in preserving freedom of religion or freedom of speech.

The Big Boss named the spot on the hillside as the rallying point.