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organize

See also: organise

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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.

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Verb

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organize (third-person singular simple present organizes, present participle organizing, simple past and past participle organized) (American and Oxford British spelling)

  1. (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[1]:
      Multiple bits moving in macroprocess join triplet macrounits which logically organize information networks encoding units in structures enclosing triplet code.
  2. (transitive) To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
    • 1803, William Cranch, Marbury v. Madison:
      This original and supreme will organizes the government.
    • 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[2]:
      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.
  3. (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.
  4. (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
  5. (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

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Conjugation of organize
infinitive (to) organize
present tense past tense
1st-person singular organize organized
2nd-person singular organize, organizest† organized, organizedst†
3rd-person singular organizes, organizeth† organized
plural organize
subjunctive organize organized
imperative organize —
participles organizing organized

† Archaic or obsolete.

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References

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  1. ^ “organīsen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ “organize, v.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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Verb

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organize

  1. inflection of organizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French organisé, past participle of organiser.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /oɾ.ɡa.niˈze/
  • Hyphenation: or‧ga‧ni‧ze

Adjective

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organize

  1. organized

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Noun

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organize (definite accusative organizeyi, plural organizeler)

  1. organizing; uniting
  2. arranging properly
  3. organization

Declension

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Declension of organize
singular plural
nominative organize organizeler
definite accusative organizeyi organizeleri
dative organizeye organizelere
locative organizede organizelerde
ablative organizeden organizelerden
genitive organizenin organizelerin
Predicative forms
singular plural
1st singular organizeyim organizelerim
2nd singular organizesin organizelersin
3rd singular organize
organizedir 		organizeler
organizelerdir
1st plural organizeyiz organizeleriz
2nd plural organizesiniz organizelersiniz
3rd plural organizeler organizelerdir

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