arrangement
449
2.5
- noun
- /əˈreɪndʒmənt/
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acuerdo
- Decide what is most important, and make arrangements for a further interview to cover the rest.
- make arrangements
- institutional arrangements
- contractual arrangements
It was a car would pull up, we would make an arrangement and that was it.
- It was a car would pull up, we would make an arrangement and that was it.
- And then we started making the arrangements to get him back here.
- I said maybe I should cancel this arrangement because I have a bad hair day.
- It's one of the most tragic business commercial arrangements in all of human history.
- And so made arrangements to drop it off at her office the next day.
- It has been reciprocal trading arrangements that we've had under Gatton and later WTO.
- And I just start like, you know, make an arrangement.
- I'd classify it more like an occasional arrangement.
- I'd rather just stay like this and just make some other kind of arrangement.
- Again, the plan is to have less things, but we need some kind of arrangements for her here as well.
- I would have made him stay for dinner and I would have said they make arrangements for another day.
Examples
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We made an arrangement to meet at the coffee shop this Saturday.
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer described this arrangement as a major success.
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So would this arrangement be more equal than what we have now?
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But they also had some sort of an arrangement with some Chinese schools.
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Why is it so impossible to make arrangements to protect British children?
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The arrangements were made in Paris.
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And then I have funeral arrangements to make.
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I'll be out today making the arrangements.
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Tomorrow we should probably start looking into funeral arrangements.
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As the meeting began, European leaders were desperately trying to negotiate an arrangement to keep currencies stable.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
∞
1.4
An agreement, often about buying or selling
∞
1.4
A promise made between two or more people, often written
595
1.5
A planned meeting at a set time, often with a professional
267
2.4
An arrangement made in advance to hold a seat, room, or service
31
1.0
An arrangement made in advance to keep a seat, room, or time for you
1
4.4
A plan made before an event to organize things
Antonyms
Compounds
How Definite
∞
2.8
361
1.0
595
1.5
449
2.5
∞
1.0
759
1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Arrangement comes from the old French verb arranger, which meant 'to put in order' and also had the idea of 'making ready'. So an arrangement can be a plan or agreement you make with someone to set a time or place.