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English
Etymology
From Middle English organizen, organysen, partly from Middle French organiser and partly from its etymon, Medieval Latin organizō,[1][2] from Latin organum (“organ”); see organ.
Pronunciation
Verb
organize (third-person singular simple present organizes, present participle organizing, simple past and past participle organized) (American and Oxford British spelling)
- (transitive) To arrange in working order.
2015, Vladimir S. Lerner, “The impulse observations of random process generate information binding reversible micro and irreversible macro processes in Observer: regularities, limitations, and conditions of self-creation”, in arXiv:Multiple bits moving in macroprocess join triplet macrounits which logically organize information networks encoding units in structures enclosing triplet code.
- (transitive) To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
2003, Rodney Castleden, King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend:With Arthur it was clearly the Falklands factor writ large. Actions such as organizing and building the Wansdyke or Cadbury 11 (the refortification) would have strengthened the authority and extended the power of whichever king was the organizer.
2008 April 18, Susan Dominus, “Young, Hip and Wild About Comic Books”, in The New York Times:Ms. Crabapple did a lot of posing in bikinis, and less, to pay her way through F.I.T.; in addition to showing in fine art galleries and drawing comics, she organizes events she calls Dr. Sketchy’s, a life drawing class that’s also a burlesque show with music, costumes and seminudity.
- (transitive, chiefly used in the past participle) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life
an organized being
organized matter
1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. , London: Samuel Smith, , →OCLC:These nobler faculties in the mind of man, […] matter organized could never produce.
- (transitive, music) To sing in parts.
to organize an anthem
1828, Thomas Busby, A Complete Dictionary of Music:Formerly , those Catholic priests who sung in parts : so to sing , was to organize
- (transitive, intransitive) To band together into a group or union that can bargain and act collectively; to unionize.
the workers decided to organize; their next task was to organize the workers at the steel mill
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
to arrange in working order
- Albanian: organizoj (sq)
- Arabic: نَظَّمَ (naẓẓama)
- Armenian: կազմակերպել (hy) (kazmakerpel), դասավորել (hy) (dasavorel)
- Bulgarian: устройвам (bg) (ustrojvam)
- Catalan: organitzar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 組織/组织 (zh) (zǔzhī)
- Czech: uspořádat (cs), zorganizovat, srovnat (cs)
- Danish: organisere
- Dutch: organiseren (nl)
- Finnish: järjestää (fi), järjestellä (fi)
- French: organiser (fr)
- Galician: organizar (gl), argallar (gl)
- German: organisieren (de)
- Greek: οργανώνω (el) (organóno)
- Ancient: συνίστημι (sunístēmi)
- Hindi: व्यवस्था करना (vyavasthā karnā)
- Hungarian: szervez (hu), megszervez (hu), rendez (hu)
- Icelandic: skipuleggja (is)
- Italian: organizzare (it)
- Japanese: 組織する (ja) (そしきする, soshiki suru)
- Khmer: រៀបចំ (km) (riəp cɑm), ចាត់ចែង (km) (cat caeŋ)
- Korean: 조직하다 (ko) (jojikhada)
- Latin: ordinō
- Latvian: organizēt
- Macedonian: организира impf or pf (organizira)
- Malay: mengatur (ms)
- Ngazidja Comorian: upanga
- Occitan: organizar (oc)
- Persian: سامان دادن (sâmân dâdan)
- Polish: organizować (pl) impf, zorganizować (pl) pf
- Portuguese: organizar (pt)
- Quechua: paway
- Romanian: organiza (ro)
- Romansch: organisar
- Russian: организо́вывать (ru) impf (organizóvyvatʹ), организова́ть (ru) pf (organizovátʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: (please verify) орга̀низовати (Bosnian, Serbian), (please verify) организи́рати (Croatian)
- Roman: (please verify) orgànizovati (sh) (Bosnian, Serbian), (please verify) organizírati (sh) (Croatian)
- Spanish: organizar (es)
- Swahili: kupanga (sw)
- Swedish: organisera (sv)
- Vietnamese: sắp xếp (vi), tổ chức (vi)
- Walloon: organizer, arindjî (wa)
- Welsh: trefnu (cy)
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to constitute in parts, each having a special function; to systematize
to furnish with organs; to give organic structure to; to endow with capacity for functions of life
to sing in parts; to organize an anthem
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References
Further reading
- “organize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “organize”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Portuguese
Verb
organize
- inflection of organizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French organisé, past participle of organiser.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oɾ.ɡa.niˈze/
- Hyphenation: or‧ga‧ni‧ze
Adjective
organize
- organized
Derived terms
Noun
organize (definite accusative organizeyi, plural organizeler)
- organizing; uniting
- arranging properly
- organization
Declension
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