organise

CEFRA2

/ˈɔrɡəˌnaɪz/

verb

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01
verb
To arrange people or things in an orderly way.
02
verb
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Non-Oxford British standard spelling of organize.

Examples

Tomorrow, we'll organise a demonstration against the abuse of power.
We are planning to organise a party for M. Osa next summer.

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 2
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

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You couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery!
Western Europe represented 20 per cent of the world's market. 'Listen, guys, go organic! I'll take care of both the shipping arrangements and la douane, the customs. I'll organise the transport of the little cutesters from South Africa […]

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The Lancashire Tradesmen's Association organises craftsmen, semi-skilled and unskilled workmen on the surface other than the manipulators of coal, enginemen, boilermen and locomen; it also organises skilled craftsmen underground, although some craftsmen are organised by the Lancashire Area, which seeks to organise all underground workers including craftsmen.
1948, Report of the National Executive Committee [to The] Annual Conference, National Union of Mineworkers
To celebrate the centenary next month of the opening of the first section (Forest Gate to Tilbury) of the former London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, the Stephenson Locomotive Society is organising a special rail tour over that route and other lesser-known L.T.S.R. lines.
1954 March, “Notes and News: S.L.S. Tour of Tilbury Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 215
Western Europe represented 20 per cent of the world's market. 'Listen, guys, go organic! I'll take care of both the shipping arrangements and la douane, the customs. I'll organise the transport of the little cutesters from South Africa […]
2011, Carol Drinkwater, Return to the Olive Farm
The case reported here illustrates two rare causes of CVT observed in the same patient: the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies associated with an asymptomatic cryptogenic organising pneumopathy (COP) which were considered the origin of the venous cerebral thrombosis and heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) which was responsible for the worsening of the thrombosis observed a few days after the introduction of treatment.
2013 July 9, J Hsieh et al., “Cerebral venous thrombosis due to cryptogenic organising pneumopathy with antiphospholipid syndrome worsened by heparin-induced thrombocytopenia”, in BMJ Case Reports, volume 2013, →DOI
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.
2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 16 May 2024

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Origin

verb

From Middle French organiser. By surface analysis, organ + -ise.

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