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Organize   /ˈɔrgənˌaɪz/   Listen
Organize

verb
(past & past part. organized; pres. part. organizing)
1.
Create (as an entity).  Synonyms: form, organise.  "They formed a company"
2.
Cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea.  Synonym: organise.
3.
Plan and direct (a complex undertaking).  Synonyms: direct, engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise.
4.
Bring order and organization to.  Synonyms: coordinate, organise.
5.
Arrange by systematic planning and united effort.  Synonyms: devise, get up, machinate, organise, prepare.  "Organize a strike" , "Devise a plan to take over the director's office"
6.
Form or join a union.  Synonyms: organise, unionise, unionize.



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"Organize" Quotes from Famous Books



... the opening of which has been fixed for May 1, 1883, is now in way of realization. This exhibition will present a special interest to all nations, and particularly to their export trade. Holland, which is one of the great colonial powers, proposes by means of this affair to organize a competition between the various colonizing nations, and to contribute thus to a knowledge of the resources of foreign countries whose richness of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 • Various

... indeed he was, above all things, a manipulator of men. His talents in this direction had been displayed at school and at college, and when he settled down to political life in London, and impulsively began to suggest, to persuade, to contrive, and to organize, everyone with whom he came in contact acknowledged a superior mind, or, at any rate, a more ingenious and fertile mind. He had refused to bind himself down to an office, as his friends wanted him to do, ...
— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... compulsory notification and treatment in this country, provided that there should be no return to the principles or practice of the Contagious Diseases Act." Referring to the finding of the Royal Commission on Venereal Disease that it would not be possible at present to organize a satisfactory method of certification of fitness for marriage, the National Birth-rate Commission thought this question should now be reconsidered with a view to legislation. "If," says the report, "a certificate of health was to become a legal obligation ...
— Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) • Committee Of The Board Of Health

... reaching Adelaide that there were enough applications already handed in at the military staff office to organize five or six squadrons, instead of one. It became a question simply of selecting the best. Married men were at once barred. Our unit was one squadron, a hundred and twenty officers and men. The remark which had been made to me in the War ...
— The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon • Jose Maria Gordon

... as existed before the Revolution were limited to the skilled trades. In 1648 the coopers and the shoemakers of Boston were granted permission to organize guilds, which embraced both master and journeyman, and there were a few similar organizations in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. But these were not unions like those of today. "There are," says Richard T. Ely, "no traces of anything like a modern trades' ...
— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth


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