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. (transitive) To arrange in working order.
2. (transitive) To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
   • Cranch

     This original and supreme will organizes the government.

3. (transitive) 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.
   • Ray

     These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce.

4. (transitive, music) To sing in parts.

   to organize an anthem

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Derived terms

• organized
• organizer
• organization
• self-organize

Translations

to arrange in working order

• Albanian: organizoj (sq)
• Arabic: نظم (ar) (náẓẓama)
• Armenian: կազմակերպել (kazmakerpel), դասավորել (dasavorel)
• Catalan: organitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 組織 (cmn), 组织 (cmn) (zǔzhī)

• Czech: uspořádat (cs), zorganizovat (cs), srovnat (cs)
• Danish: organisere (da)
• Dutch: organiseren (nl)
• Finnish: järjestää (fi), järjestellä (fi)
• French: organiser (fr)
• German: organisieren (de)
• Hindi: व्यवस्था करना (hi) (vyavasthā karnā)
• Hungarian: szervez (hu), megszervez (hu), rendez (hu)

• Japanese: 組織する (ja) (そしきする, soshikí surú)
• Korean: 조직하다 (ko) (jojik-hada)
• Polish: organizować (pl)
• Portuguese: organizar (pt)
• Quechua: paway (qu)
• Romansch: organisar (rm)
• Russian: организовывать (ru) (organizóvyvatʹ) impf., организовать (ru) (organizovátʹ)) pf.
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: (Serbian) организовати (sh),

  Roman: (Bosnian, Croatian) organizovati (sh), (Serbian) organizírati (sh)

• Spanish: organizar (es)
• 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)
• Dutch: organiseren (nl)
• Finnish: järjestää (fi), systematisoida (fi)

• German: organisieren (de)
• Russian: организовывать (ru) (organizóvyvatʹ) impf., организовать (ru) (organizovátʹ)) pf.
• Spanish: organizar (es)

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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Translations to be checked

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