Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To put in order; arrange in an orderly way.
- intransitive verb To cause to have an orderly, functional, or coherent structure: synonym: arrange.
- intransitive verb To cause (oneself) to act or live in an orderly or planned way.
- intransitive verb To arrange or prepared for (an activity or event).
- intransitive verb To establish as an organization: synonym: establish.
- intransitive verb To induce (employees) to form or join a labor union.
- intransitive verb To induce the employees of (a business or industry) to form or join a union.
- intransitive verb To develop into or assume an orderly, functional, or coherent structure.
- intransitive verb To form or join an activist group, especially a labor union.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To arrange; plan; prepare.
- To render organic; give an organic structure to; construct or modify so as to exhibit or subserve vital processes: commonly in the past participle.
- In general, to form into a whole consisting of interdependent parts; coördinate the parts of; systematize; arrange according to a uniform plan or for a given purpose; provide with a definite structure or constitution; order.
- In music, to sing or arrange in parts: as, to
organize the halleluiah. - Synonyms To constitute, construct.
- To assume an organic structure or a definite formation or constitution, as a number of individuals; become coördinated or systematically arranged or ordered.
- Also spelled
organise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Biol.) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; ; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.
- transitive verb 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.
- transitive verb (Mus.), rare To sing in parts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
arrange inworking order . - verb transitive To
constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize. - verb transitive 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. - verb transitive, music To
sing in parts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb create (as an entity)
- verb form or join a union
- verb cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea
- verb bring order and organization to
- verb plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
- verb arrange by systematic planning and united effort
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The best motivation for me to clean and organize is to plan a party or have those friends over for dinner that I know will talk about how messy I am.
Organise More Efficiently By Staying Put | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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To give just one particularly egregious example, in a case called Oakwood Healthcare Batista stripped millions of American workers of their right to unionize by holding that an employee who provides even minimal direction to their co-workers can be classified as a “supervisor” (The right of actual managers to organize is not protected under federal labor law).
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The ability to communicate and organize is particularly important in political terms.
Global Voices in English » Update from the Harvard Forum on ICT4D 2009
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My "thing," if I want to organize, is solid communication with the people in the community.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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My "thing," if I want to organize, is solid communication with the people in the community.
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How we organize is also a major challenge to us as hospitals.
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Furthermore, let us not forget that the abstract right to organize is not the same as the right when concretely exercised.
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The right of men to organize is no more to be questioned than your right or mine to be the citizen of the state to which we belong.
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Again, this tendency to organize is not conducive to the highest individual development.
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Barack Obama’s silence on the horrid crime in the city he attempted to organize, is both chilling and unacceptable.
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