organize
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< New Latin organizare (“‘to organize’”) (cf. Medieval Latin organizare (“‘to play on the organ’”)) < Latin organum (“‘organ’”); see organ.
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to organize (third-person singular simple present organizes, present participle organizing, simple past and past participle organized)
- To arrange in working order.
- To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
- 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.
- To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem.
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to arrange in working order
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to constitute in parts, each having a special function; to systematize
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to furnish with organs; to give organic structure to; to endow with capacity for functions of life
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[edit] External links
- organize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- organize in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
