See also: organise
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔːɡənaɪz/
- Hyphenation: or‧gan‧ize
- (transitive) To arrange in working order.
- (transitive) To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
- This original and supreme will organizes the government.
- (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
- These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce.
- (transitive, music) To sing in parts.
- to organize an anthem
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- (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
to arrange in working order
to constitute in parts, each having a special function; to systematize
to furnish with organs; to give organic structure to; to endow with capacity for functions of life
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Translations to be checked
- organize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- organize in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911