ORGANIZER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does organizer mean? 

• ORGANIZER (noun)
  The noun ORGANIZER has 3 senses:

1. a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise

2. someone who enlists workers to join a union

3. 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.

  Familiarity information: ORGANIZER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORGANIZER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who brings order and organization to an enterprise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

arranger; organiser; organizer

Context example:

she was the organizer of the meeting

Hypernyms ("organizer" is a kind of...):

thinker (someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "organizer"):

co-ordinator; coordinator (someone whose task is to see that work goes harmoniously)

orderer; systematiser; systematist; systematizer; systemiser; systemizer (an organizer who puts things in order)

Derivation:

organize (bring order and organization to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who enlists workers to join a union

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

labor organizer; organiser; organizer

Hypernyms ("organizer" is a kind of...):

union representative (a representative for a labor union)

Instance hyponyms:

Debs; Eugene V. Debs; Eugene Victor Debs (United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926))

Derivation:

organize (plan and direct (a complex undertaking))

organize (form or join a union)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

organiser; organizer; PDA; personal digital assistant; personal organiser; personal organizer

Hypernyms ("organizer" is a kind of...):

electronic device (a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically)

Derivation:

organize (bring order and organization to)

 Context examples 

He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the nucleolus rRNA is transcribed from a nucleolar organizer, i.e., a group of tandemly repeated chromosomal genes which encode rRNA and which are transcribed by RNA polymerase I.

(Nucleolus, NCI Thesaurus)

Nucleolar organizer regions (NORs), which are loops of DNA containing ribosomal RNA genes, have been shown to correlate with cell proliferation and malignant transformation.

(Nucleolar Organizer Region, NCI Thesaurus)