organize

See also: organise

English

Alternative forms

• organise (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French organiser, from Medieval Latin organizō, from Latin organum (“organ”); see organ.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːɡənaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Hyphenation: or‧gan‧ize

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.
   • 1803, William Cranch, Marbury v. Madison:

     This original and supreme will organizes the government.

3. (transitive, chiefly used in the past participle) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life

   an organized being

   organized matter

   • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:

     These nobler faculties in the mind of man, […] matter organized could never produce.

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

   to organize an anthem

   • 1828, Thomas Busby, A Complete Dictionary of Music:

     Formerly , those Catholic priests who sung in parts : so to sing , was to organize

5. (transitive, intransitive) To band together into a group or union that can bargain and act collectively; to unionize.

   the workers decided to organize; their next task was to organize the workers at the steel mill

Conjugation

Conjugation of organize

infinitive	(to) organize
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	organize	organized
2nd-person singular	organize, organizest†	organized, organizedst†
3rd-person singular	organizes, organizeth†	organized
plural	organize
subjunctive	organize	organized
imperative	organize	—
participles	organizing	organized

^†Archaic or obsolete.

Derived terms

• organization
• organized
• organizer
• reorganize
• self-organize

 

Translations

to arrange in working order

• Albanian: organizoj (sq)
• Arabic: نَظَّمَ (naẓẓama)
• Armenian: կազմակերպել (hy) (kazmakerpel), դասավորել (hy) (dasavorel)
• Bulgarian: устройвам (bg) (ustrojvam)
• Catalan: organitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 組織／组织 (zh) (zǔzhī)

• Czech: uspořádat (cs), zorganizovat, srovnat (cs)
• Danish: organisere
• Dutch: organiseren (nl)
• Finnish: järjestää (fi), järjestellä (fi)
• French: organiser (fr)
• Galician: organizar (gl), argallar (gl)
• German: organisieren (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: συνίστημι (sunístēmi)

• Hindi: व्यवस्था करना (vyavasthā karnā)
• Hungarian: szervez (hu), megszervez (hu), rendez (hu)
• Icelandic: skipuleggja (is)
• Italian: organizzare (it)
• Japanese: 組織する (ja) (そしきする, soshiki suru)
• Khmer: រៀបចំ (km) (riəp cɑm), ចាត់ចែង (km) (cat caeŋ)
• Korean: 조직하다 (ko) (jojikhada)
• Latin: ordinō
• Latvian: organizēt
• Macedonian: организира impf or pf (organizira)
• Malay: mengatur (ms)
• Ngazidja Comorian: upanga
• Occitan: organizar (oc)
• Persian: سامان دادن (sâmân dâdan)
• Polish: organizować (pl) impf, zorganizować (pl) pf
• Portuguese: organizar (pt)
• Quechua: paway
• Romanian: organiza (ro)
• Romansch: organisar
• Russian: организо́вывать (ru) impf (organizóvyvatʹ), организова́ть (ru) pf (organizovátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} орга̀низовати (Bosnian, Serbian), ^{(please verify)} организи́рати (Croatian)

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} orgànizovati (sh) (Bosnian, Serbian), ^{(please verify)} organizírati (sh) (Croatian)

• Spanish: organizar (es)
• Swahili: kupanga (sw)
• Swedish: organisera (sv)
• Vietnamese: sắp xếp (vi), tổ chức (vi)
• Walloon: organizer, arindjî (wa)
• Welsh: trefnu (cy)

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

• Albanian: organizoj (sq)
• Armenian: կազմակերպել (hy) (kazmakerpel)
• Bulgarian: организирам (bg) (organiziram)
• Czech: zatřídit, utřídit, roztřídit (cs), zorganizovat
• Dutch: organiseren (nl)
• Finnish: muodostaa (fi), (passive) koostua (fi)
• German: organisieren (de)
• Latin: ordinō
• Russian: организо́вывать (ru) impf (organizóvyvatʹ), организова́ть (ru) pf (organizovátʹ)
• Spanish: organizar (es)
• Vietnamese: sắp xếp (vi), tổ chức (vi)

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

• Czech: zorganizovat, organizovat, organizovat se
• Finnish: järjestää (fi), organisoida (fi)
• Swahili: panga (sw)

To sing in parts; to organize an anthem

• Swahili: panga (sw)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} نَظَّمَ (naẓẓama)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} organizi
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 조직하다 (ko) (jojikhada)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} organîze kirin (ku) , ^{(please verify)} bi rêk xistin (ku), ^{(please verify)} li dar xistin (ku), ^{(please verify)} dirist kirin (ku), ^{(please verify)} saz kirin (ku) , ^{(please verify)} çêkirin (ku), ^{(please verify)} organîzandin (ku), ^{(please verify)} sîstematîzandin

• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} organisera (sv)

Further reading

• “organize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “organize”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• agonizer

Portuguese

Verb

organize

1. inflection of organizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French organisé, past participle of organiser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oɾ.ɡa.niˈze/
• Hyphenation: or‧ga‧ni‧ze

Adjective

organize

1. organized

Derived terms

• organize etmek

Noun

organize (definite accusative organizeyi, plural organizeler)

1. organizing; uniting
2. arranging properly
3. organization

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	organize
Definite accusative	organizeyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	organize	organizeler
Definite accusative	organizeyi	organizeleri
Dative	organizeye	organizelere
Locative	organizede	organizelerde
Ablative	organizeden	organizelerden
Genitive	organizenin	organizelerin
Predicative forms Singular Plural 1st singular organizeyim organizelerim 2nd singular organizesin organizelersin 3rd singular organize organizedir organizeler organizelerdir 1st plural organizeyiz organizeleriz 2nd plural organizesiniz organizelersiniz 3rd plural organizeler organizelerdir

Further reading

• “organize”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “organize”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “organize”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı