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[awr-guh-nahyz]

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verb (used with object)

to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.

to systematize: to organize the files of an office.

to give organic structure or character to: to organize the elements of a composition.

to enlist or attempt to enlist into a labor union: to organize workers.

to enlist the employees of (a company) into a labor union; unionize: to organize a factory.

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Informal. to put (oneself) in a state of mental competence to perform a task: We can't have any slip-ups, so you'd better get organized.

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verb (used without object)

to combine in an organized company, party, or the like.

to form a labor union: Management resisted all efforts to organize.

to assume organic structure.

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Also, especially British, or·gan·ise.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin organizāre to contrive, arrange = organ(um) organ + -izāre -ize

Related forms

or·gan·iz·a·ble, adjective

or·gan·iz·a·bil·i·ty, noun

mis·or·gan·ize, verb, -ized, -iz·ing.

out·or·gan·ize, verb (used with object), -ized, -iz·ing.

pre·or·gan·ize, verb, -ized, -iz·ing.

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un·or·gan·iz·a·ble, adjective

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Synonyms
1. dispose, frame. 2. order.

Antonyms
1. destroy.

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Example Sentences

If you chose electronic storage, there's still the question of how to organize the files.

The site will then prompt you to enter in your name as well as other email addresses you might use to organize your travel.

The best case scenario is that the guerrilla will organize more weakly and continue to push for talks.

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If you chose electronic storage, there's still the question of how to organize the files.

The site will then prompt you to enter in your name as well as other email addresses you might use to organize your travel.

The best case scenario is that the guerrilla will organize more weakly and continue to push for talks.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

In fact, they show a remarkable ability to organize themselves and support one another.

Already she is forcing herself to organize the material she has on hand.

Or you could organize a party to make dozens of small potted plants to sell as fund-raisers for schools or garden clubs.

Reader makes it relatively easy to organize feeds by creating tags which show up in the left-hand column, similar to folders.

If you have to design and organize course content, it will add a lot of time.

Yes, there is a better way to organize the world's currencies.

But they plan to organize additional surveys in coming years.

People collect art because they want to have, organize and catalog a group of special, rarified objects.

Think of creative ways to organize and arrange the materials, cut on angles, woven together or stacked.

Faces is a tool that uses face detection to find and organize photos by the people in them.

Organize laboratory consumables, chemicals and reagents, and maintain inventory.

The unwritten rule of giant corporations is to organize in such a way that nobody can be found to blame.

One of the center's goals is to compile and organize the information so that it can serve as potential evidence in court.

And organize your search based on more than one variable, such as harvest time and lighting conditions.

Better solutions come from unorganized people who are allowed to organize organically.

The bottom line is that students who speak out or organize in any way risk serious exposure.

Ability to work and organize program with own initiative and under minimal supervision.

Regions help us organize and better understand geographic information.

Most supermarkets organize their wines in a way that is predictable.

Compaq will create a database to organize and compute data on protein images.

Official policy needs to organize itself to produce less smoke and heat, and more light.

Chaplin says water imposes structure on the arrangement of proteins in a cell and thus helps organize life itself.

They organize everything in advance so that they don't have to stop midproject.

New technology digitizes mountains of old-school prints and helps photographers organize their digital imagery collections.

Filipinos should organize themselves to provide monitoring at their respective poll stations.

The secondary low-profile hood provides volume options, and the pockets on the waistbelt and sides help organize your gear.

The group hopes people will organize community screenings of the series around the country.

And to a company whose objective is to organize information, this is really what counts.

There might still be no penalty for littering if prison road crews could organize.

It would be more of a story if people against the health care power grabs did not organize some type of response.

Opposition groups use the internet to organize demonstrations or rebellion.

Any attempt to organize and demand minimal rights was treated as a crime.

I've learnt from biology that all men are primates, the kind of primates that self organize into oligarchies.

Great example of how people can spontaneously organize effective network of help.

Two new visually oriented programs are designed to organize everything from tasks and obligations to ideas.

After all, she cannot relieve them from part of their course load to organize a trip, she says.

Make this pen and pencil holder to organize your supplies for the school year.

Our new version is an attempt to better organize and provide more context for that information.

Because the body is used to rhythms, the influence of a beat helps us to readily organize our physical movements.

Unions say they want to organize workers to improve.

For example, perhaps you're a grad student who's been asked to organize a speaker series in your department.

Organization is always facilitated by having concrete symbols and sites to organize around and by having sacred.

Even in the early days, its ultimate goal was extravagant: to organize the world's information.

Even if there were consensus on the best electoral design, political forces will need time to organize concrete platforms.

Find a better way to categorize them, such as using subheadings to organize the information.

We can create or organize emergency vaccine manufacturing capacity.

Encourage teachers to choose green options, or even organize a group of parents willing to pitch in for eco-conscious supplies.

Our brain has no idea how to organize our structure for sitting so the rot sets in early.

Flickr members can upload, store and organize photos.

But the event's main goal was to teach young environmentalists how to organize in their communities.

It offers easy ways to take and organize notes, to convert them into to-do lists, and then to process them to done.

Ask them to organize their findings into categories of their choosing.

LibraryThing is the clear winner when it comes to organization because of the many ways it allows you to organize your books.

Hughes organize a network of volunteers into a successful political force and apply them to a much.

Social media has made it easier than ever to organize protests and boycotts.

Moody yacht charter-those trips took months to organize.

Making status updates through either service will make it easier to organize online meet-ups.

Anyone who can organize enough people can overwhelm any server, it doesn't involve security at all.

Ask students to cut and organize the cards into a food web.

Under the hood of the operation, the robot technology also helps organize the warehouse products, by tracking their popularity.

Surely there is a way to organize these resources so that post collapse, they may once again be employed efficiently.

Then, have them group the cards into predator and prey and then organize them into a food chain or web.

Google says its mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

We need to organize our societies so that the citizen gets some control back.

Text features organize facts to let readers know what is important.

Then organize and review your actions routinely to ensure your new to-do system stays in shape.

Control of domain and domain names will clean up a lot of problems on the internet and organize the monster a bit better.

Abuilt-in database lets you organize and sort all of your information.

Cover the cans with craft paper and use them in the house to organize office supplies or kitchen utensils.

Those folks were already a lost cause before anyone thought to organize a tax protest.

All the cash from moneybags is necessary to organize campaigns.

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World English Dictionary

organize or organise (ˈɔːɡəˌnaɪz)

—vb
1.	to form (parts or elements of something) into a structured whole; coordinate
2.	(tr) to arrange methodically or in order
3.	(tr) to provide with an organic structure
4.	(tr) to enlist (the workers) of (a factory, concern, or industry) in a trade union
5.	(intr) to join or form an organization or trade union
6.	informal (tr) to put (oneself) in an alert and responsible frame of mind

[C15: from Medieval Latin organizare, from Latin organumorgan]

organise or organise

—vb

[C15: from Medieval Latin organizare, from Latin organumorgan]

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Word Origin & History

organize

early 15c., from M.L. organizare, from L. organum "instrument, organ" (see organ). Organized crime attested from 1929.

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Medical Dictionary

organize or·gan·ize (ôr'gə-nīz')
v. or·gan·ized, or·gan·iz·ing, or·gan·iz·es

To put together into an orderly, functional, structured whole.
To arrange in a coherent form.

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