organize

• organise (British)

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːɡənaɪz/
• Hyphenation: or‧gan‧ize

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.
   • (Can we date this quote by Cranch?)

     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

   • (Can we date this quote by Ray?)

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

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

   to organize an anthem

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Busby to this entry?)

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

• organize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• organize in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• agonizer

organize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of organizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of organizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of organizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of organizar