organize

See also organise

English

Alternative forms

• organise (British)

Etymology

From New Latin organizare (“to organize”) (compare Medieval Latin organizare (“to play on the organ”)), from Latin organum (“organ”); see organ.

Verb

organize (third-person singular simple present organizes, present participle organizing, simple past and past participle organized)

1. To arrange in working order.
2. To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
3. To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; — in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.
4. To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem.

Derived terms

• organized
• organizer
• organization
• self-organize

Translations

to arrange in working order

Albanian: organizoj (sq) Armenian: կազմակերպել (kazmakerpel), դասավորել (dasavorel) Catalan: organitzar (ca) Croatian: organizirati (hr) Czech: uspořádat (cs), zorganizovat (cs), srovnat (cs) Finnish: järjestää (fi), järjestellä (fi) German: organisieren (de) Hindi: व्यवस्था करना (hi) (vyavasthā karnā) Hungarian: szervez (hu), megszervez (hu), rendez (hu)

Polish: organizować (pl) Portuguese: organizar (pt) Romansch: organisar (rm) Russian: организовывать (organizóvyvat’) impf., организовать (organizovát’) pf. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: (Serbian) организовати (sh), Roman: (Bosnian, Serbian) organizovati (sh), (Croatian) organizírati (sh) Swahili: panga (sw) Welsh: trefnu (cy)

to constitute in parts, each having a special function; to systematize

Albanian: organizoj (sq) Armenian: կազմակերպել (hy) (kazmakerpel) Czech: zatřídit (cs), utřídit (cs), roztřídit (cs), zorganizovat (cs)

Finnish: järjestää (fi), systematisoida (fi) German: organisieren (de) Russian: организовывать (organizóvyvat’) impf., организовать (organizovát’) pf.

to furnish with organs; to give organic structure to; to endow with capacity for functions of life

Czech: zorganizovat (cs), organizovat (cs), organizovat se (cs) Finnish: järjestää (fi), organisoida (fi)

Swahili: panga (sw)

To sing in parts; to organize an anthem

Swahili: panga (sw)

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Arabic: نظم (náʐʐama) Dutch: organiseren Esperanto: organizi Japanese: 組織する (そしきする, soshikí surú) Korean: 조직하다 (jojikhada) Kurdish: organîze kirin, bi rêk xistin, li dar xistin, dirist kirin, saz kirin, çêkirin, organîzandin, sîstematîzandin Portuguese: organizar Spanish: organizar Swedish: organisera

External links

• organize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• organize in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Portuguese

Verb

organize (infinitive: organizar)

1. First-person singular (eu) affirmative imperative of verb organizar.
2. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of verb organizar.
3. First-person singular (eu) negative imperative of verb organizar.
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of verb organizar.
5. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of verb organizar.
6. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of verb organizar.