ORGANIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does organize mean? 

• ORGANIZE (verb)
  The verb ORGANIZE has 6 senses:

1. create (as an entity)

2. cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea

3. plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

4. bring order and organization to

5. arrange by systematic planning and united effort

6. form or join a union

  Familiarity information: ORGANIZE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORGANIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they organize    ... he / she / it organizes   
Past simple: organized   
Past participle: organized   
-ing form: organizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Create (as an entity)

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

form; organise; organize

Context example:

They formed a company

Hypernyms (to "organize" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "organize"):

regroup; reorganise; reorganize (organize anew, as after a setback)

choose up (form sides, as for a game)

draw up (form or arrange in order or formation, as of a body of soldiers)

regiment (form (military personnel) into a regiment)

syndicate (organize into or form a syndicate)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

organization (the act of forming or establishing something)

organization (the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business)

organization (a group of people who work together)

organization (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

organise; organize

Hypernyms (to "organize" is one way to...):

care; deal; handle; manage (be in charge of, act on, or dispose of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "organize"):

arrange; order; put; set up (arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events)

collectivise; collectivize (bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises)

reorganise; reorganize; shake up (organize anew)

territorialise; territorialize (organize as a territory)

rationalise; rationalize (structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Antonym:

disorganize (remove the organization from)

Derivation:

organization (the act of forming or establishing something)

organization (the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically)

organization (the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business)

organization (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

direct; engineer; mastermind; orchestrate; organise; organize

Context example:

he masterminded the robbery

Hypernyms (to "organize" is one way to...):

plan (make plans for something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "organize"):

choreograph (plan and oversee the development and details of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

organization (the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically)

organization (the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business)

organization (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something)

organizer (someone who enlists workers to join a union)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Bring order and organization to

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

coordinate; organise; organize

Context example:

Can you help me organize my files?

Hypernyms (to "organize" is one way to...):

arrange; set up (put into a proper or systematic order)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "organize"):

interlock; mesh (coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively)

structure (give a structure to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

organization (the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically)

organization (the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business)

organization (an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized)

organization (an organized structure for arranging or classifying)

organization (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something)

organizer (a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc.)

organizer (a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise)

organization (the act of forming or establishing something)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Arrange by systematic planning and united effort

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

devise; get up; machinate; organise; organize; prepare

Context example:

devise a plan to take over the director's office

Hypernyms (to "organize" is one way to...):

initiate; pioneer (take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "organize"):

mount; put on (prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance)

lay (prepare or position for action or operation)

set up (begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.)

sandwich (make into a sandwich)

spatchcock (prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock)

embattle (prepare for battle or conflict)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

organization (the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business)

organization (a group of people who work together)

organization (the act of forming or establishing something)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Form or join a union

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

organise; organize; unionise; unionize

Context example:

The auto workers decided to unionize

Hypernyms (to "organize" is one way to...):

fall in; get together; join (become part of; become a member of a group or organization)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

organization (the act of forming or establishing something)

organization (a group of people who work together)

organizer (someone who enlists workers to join a union)

 Context examples 

Getting your life organized and having it look precisely the way you prefer will be one of your priorities in February.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

One interesting feature of these neurons is that they have large spatially organized receptive fields, yet can be activated by pulling a single hair.

(Study uncovers specialized mouse neurons that play a unique role in pain, National Institutes of Health)

Caveolin-1 is a 24 kD homooligomeric caveolar integral membrane protein that may organize signal transduction molecules as a scaffolding protein.

(Caveolin 1, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrocardiographic finding of an organized, regular atrial rhythm with atrial rate of 240-340 beats per minute.

(Atrial Flutter by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A disorder characterized by a dysrhythmia with organized rhythmic atrial contractions with a rate of 200-300 beats per minute.

(Atrial Flutter, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

The SAM team organized a different experiment for this weekend to gather more information on what might be a transient plume.

(Curiosity Detects Unusually High Methane Levels, NASA)

Another group investigated how chromatin is organized and how it influences gene regulation.

(Expanding Our Understanding of Genomics, NIH)

A disorder characterized by an electrocardiographic finding of an organized, regular atrial rhythm with atrial rate of 240-340 beats per minute.

(Atrial Flutter, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The spatial orientation of the cervical cells is often aberrant due to the lack of an organized growth process. 2005

(Cervical Atypia, NCI Thesaurus)

The NCI research portfolio is organized around the CSO categories.

(Common Scientific Outline NCI, NCI Thesaurus)