Organize - Wiktionary

See also: organise

English

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Alternative forms

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• organise (non-Oxford British spelling)

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”). By surface analysis, organ +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔːɡənaɪz/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: or‧gan‧ize

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. Synonym: marshal
   • 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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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.

Derived terms

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• deorganize
• disorganize
• inorganize
• merorganize
• misorganize
• organizable
• organization
• organized
• organizer
• outorganize
• overorganize
• preorganize
• re-organize
• reorganize
• self-organize
• self-organizing

Translations

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Albanian: organizoj (sq), Reno(Gheg) Amharic: please add this translation if you can Arabic: نَظَّمَ (naẓẓama) Armenian: կազմակերպել (hy) (kazmakerpel), դասավորել (hy) (dasavorel) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: please add this translation if you can Bengali: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: устро́йвам (bg) (ustrójvam) Catalan: organitzar (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: please add this translation if you can Hokkien: please add this translation if you can 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) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: organisieren (de) Greek: οργανώνω (el) (organóno) Ancient: συνίστημι (sunístēmi) Hebrew: ארגן (he) (irgén) 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) Kashmiri: please add this translation if you can 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) Punjabi: Gurmukhi: please add this translation if you can Shahmukhi: please add this translation if you can 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) Sindhi: please add this translation if you can Sinhala: please add this translation if you can Spanish: organizar (es) Swahili: kupanga (sw) Swedish: organisera (sv) Urdu: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: sắp xếp (vi), tổ chức (vi) Walloon: organizer, arindjî (wa) Welsh: trefnu (cy)

to constitute in parts, each having a special function; to systematize

Albanian: organizoj (sq), Reno(Gheg) Armenian: կազմակերպել (hy) (kazmakerpel) Bulgarian: организирам (bg) (organiziram) Czech: zatřídit, utřídit, roztřídit (cs), zorganizovat Dutch: organiseren (nl) Finnish: muodostaa (fi), (passive) koostua (fi) German: organisieren (de) Greek: οργανώνω (el) (organóno) Latin: ordinō Russian: организо́вывать (ru) impf (organizóvyvatʹ), организова́ть (ru) pf (organizovátʹ) Spanish: organizar (es) Vietnamese: sắp xếp (vi), tổ chức (vi)

to furnish with organs; to give organic structure to; to endow with capacity for functions of life

Czech: zorganizovat, organizovat, organizovat se Finnish: järjestää (fi), organisoida (fi) Swahili: panga (sw)

to sing in parts; to organize an anthem

Swahili: panga (sw)

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Arabic: (please verify) نَظَّمَ (naẓẓama) Esperanto: (please verify) organizi Korean: (please verify) 조직하다 (ko) (jojikhada) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: (please verify) organîze kirin (ku) , (please verify) bi rêk xistin (ku), (please verify) li dar xistin (ku), (please verify) dirist kirin (ku), (please verify) saz kirin (ku) , (please verify) çêkirin (ku), (please verify) organîzandin (ku), (please verify) sîstematîzandin Swedish: (please verify) organisera (sv)

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.

Further reading

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• “organize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “organize”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

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• agonizer

Portuguese

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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

Turkish

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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

Derived terms

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• organize etmek

Noun

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organize (definite accusative organizeyi, plural organizeler)

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

Declension

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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 organizeorganizedir organizelerorganizelerdir 1st plural organizeyiz organizeleriz 2nd plural organizesiniz organizelersiniz 3rd plural organizeler organizelerdir

Further reading

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• “organize”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “organize”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “organize”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı