Meaning of ORGANIZE
Pronunciation: | | 'orgu`nIz
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- [v] bring order and organization to; "Can you help me organize my files?"
- [v] plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery"
- [v] arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"
- [v] cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea
- [v] form or join a union; "The autoworkers decided to unionize"
- [v] create, as of a social group or a company, for example
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| Synonyms: | | coordinate, devise, direct, engineer, form, get up, machinate, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organise, organise, organise, prepare, unionise, unionize |
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| Antonyms: | | disorganise, disorganize | |
| See Also: | | arrange, care, choose up, choreograph, collectivise, collectivize, create, deal, draw up, fall in, get together, handle, initiate, interlock, join, lay, make, manage, mesh, mount, pioneer, plan, put on, rationalise, rationalize, regiment, regroup, reorganise, reorganize, sandwich, set up, set up, shake up, spatchcock, structure, syndicate, territorialise, territorialize | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Or"gan*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Organized}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Organizing}.] [Cf. F. organiser, Gr. ?. See {Organ}.]
1. (Biol.) To furnish with organs; to give an organic
structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of
life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this
sense used chiefly in the past participle.
These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized
could never produce. --Ray.
2. To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special
function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get
into working order; -- applied to products of the human
intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a
science, a government, an army, a war, etc.
This original and supreme will organizes the
government. --Cranch.
3. (Mus.) To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem. [R.]
--Busby.
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| Related Terms: | | adjust, affiliate, ally, arrange, array, assemble, associate, band together, be in cahoots, begin, build, build up, bunch, bunch up, cabal, calculate, cast, catalogue, categorize, cement a union, centralize, chart, classify, club, club together, codify, combine, come together, compose, concert, confederate, consist of, consociate, conspire, constitute, construct, contrive, cool off, coordinate, couple, create, cut out, deploy, design, develop, devise, dispose, effect, effectuate, embody, enter into, establish, fabricate, federalize, federate, figure, fix, forecast, form, found, frame, gang, gang up, go in partners, go in partnership, go into, grade, group, harmonize, hierarchize, hook up with, inaugurate, incept, incorporate, initiate, install, institute, integrate, intend, join, join forces, join fortunes with, join together, join up with, join with, lay out, lay plans, league, line up, make, make a projection, make arrangements, make up, marry, marshal, materialize, merge in, methodize, mix, muster, normalize, order, originate, pacify, pair, pair off, partner, piece together, plan, plan ahead, prearrange, program, project, put together, quiet, rally, rank, rationalize, realize, regularize, regulate, routinize, schedule, schematize, set up, settle, shape, sort out, stand together, stand up with, standardize, start, structure, synchronize, synthesize, systematize, systemize, tabulate, team up with, team with, throw in with, tie in with, tie up with, tranquilize, tune, tune up, unionize, unite in, unite with, wed, work out, work up |
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