organise

See also: organisé

English

Alternative forms

• organize (American)

Etymology

From Middle French organiser.

Pronunciation

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Verb

organise (third-person singular simple present organises, present participle organising, simple past and past participle organised)

1. (British spelling) Standard spelling of organize.
   • 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.

Derived terms

• organised crime
• organiser
• organisation

Translations

organize — see organize

Anagrams

• Noriegas, Orangies, ignaroes, orangies, rogaines

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

organise

1. inflection of organiser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• agoniser, agréions, égarions, rongeais, soignera, songerai

Middle English

Adjective

organise

1. Alternative form of organic