Organize
//ˈɔːɡənaɪz// verb
verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To arrange in working order. transitive
"Multiple bits moving in macroprocess join triplet macrounits which logically organize information networks encoding units in structures enclosing triplet code."
- 2 bring order and organization to wordnet
- 3 To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize. transitive
"This original and supreme will organizes the government."
- 4 plan and direct (a complex undertaking) wordnet
- 5 To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life transitive
"an organized being"
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- 6 arrange by systematic planning and united effort wordnet
- 7 To sing in parts. transitive
"to organize an anthem"
- 8 cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea wordnet
- 9 To band together into a group or union that can bargain and act collectively; to unionize. intransitive, transitive
"the workers decided to organize; their next task was to organize the workers at the steel mill"
- 10 form or join a union wordnet
- 11 create (as an entity) wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"Patricia will organize the tournament."
Etymology
From Middle English organizen, organysen, partly from Middle French organiser and partly from its etymon, Medieval Latin organizō, from Latin organum (“organ”). By surface analysis, organ + -ize.
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