Organize

Alternative forms

• organise British

Origin

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

Full definition of organize

Verb

1. (transitive) To arrange in working order.
2. (transitive) To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
• CranchThis 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.
• RayThese nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce.
4. (transitive, music) To sing in parts.to organize an anthem

Derived terms

• organized
• organizer
• organization
• self-organize