Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb Chiefly Brit. Same as organize.

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  • verb British Alternative spelling of organize.

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  • verb plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
  • verb cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea
  • verb arrange by systematic planning and united effort
  • verb form or join a union
  • verb create (as an entity)
  • verb bring order and organization to

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Examples

  • To this day, the library continues to lend books in English, organise educational activities such as story-telling and children's plays, and offer a place where artists can display their works.

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  • The more we tried to 'organise' it the less it seemed to happen.

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  • That particular imbroglio brings speedily to mind the words 'organise', 'piss up' and 'brewery' so the idea of a post-Independence Scotland having the ability to organise a Navy is just a 'fall about laughing' matter.

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  • That particular imbroglio brings speedily to mind the words 'organise', 'piss up' and 'brewery' so the idea of a post-Independence Scotland having the ability to organise a Navy is just a 'fall about laughing' matter.

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  • If I ever get round to buying my first home, that's the first room I want to 'organise'.

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  • However, I haven't bothered with some of the more squirrely stuff like "organise" or the double-L vs single-L words.

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  • When I saw the word "organise" in the description, I knew the creator was British because he used "s" instead of "z" we Americans write "organize".

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  • They had some tea and buttered scones in a cheaper cafe, where Nellie tried to "organise" another waitress.

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  • They have made a commonplace of the word "organise"; the alien word is "vitalise."

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  • "A stronger and clearer framework governing employer rights in workplaces or industries which unions wish to 'organise' is required to prevent unproductive demarcation disputes."

    The Australian | News | 2009

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