arrange

CEFRB1

/əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To put things in a particular order or position.

  2. 02

    verb

    To plan or organize something.

Examples

  • I'll arrange for someone to pick you up at your home.

  • Let's try to arrange something.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To plan; to prepare in advance.

  2. To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.

  3. To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.

More examples

In context

  • to arrange to meet; to arrange for supper

  • The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].

  • It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

Old French arangierbor. Middle English arengen English arrange Inherited from Middle English arengen, arrangen (“to draw up a battle line”), borrowed from Old French arengier, arangier (“to put in a line, put in a row”), derived from reng, rang, ranc (“line, row, rank”), from Frankish *hring (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, a form of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).