Organize Meaning
/ˈɔːɡənaɪz/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo arrange in working order.
verbTo constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
Sentence Examples
Patricia will organize the tournament.
We hope to organize a tennis club.
He helped to organize various events.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Volunteers will ____ the charity event by setting up tables and chairs.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The students decided to ____ a protest march to demand better facilities at their school.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English organizen, organysen, partly from Middle French organiser and partly from its etymon, Medieval Latin organizō, from Latin organum (“organ”). By surface analysis, organ + -ize.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Multiple bits moving in macroprocess join triplet macrounits which logically organize information networks encoding units in structures enclosing triplet code."
— 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:
"This original and supreme will organizes the government."
— 1803, William Cranch, Marbury v. Madison:
"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."
— 2003, Rodney Castleden, King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend:
"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."
— 2008 April 18, Susan Dominus, “Young, Hip and Wild About Comic Books”, in The New York Times:
"These nobler faculties in the mind of man, […] matter organized could never produce."
— 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Volunteers will ____ the charity event by setting up tables and chairs.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The students decided to ____ a protest march to demand better facilities at their school.