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📅 To arrange 🤝 To organize for someone
to fix up

to fix up

25 2.8
To arrange a meeting or appointment
  • phrasal verb
  • /fɪks ʌp/
translation icon : organizar
  • fix up my place
  • fix up your home
  • fix up the house

My team are like, we've got an hour to fix this up, right?

Examples

  • How long did it take you to fix up your house?

    Love in Winterland (2020)

  • This place is going to be great when we fix it up.

    Haunted Mansion (2023)

  • What if we help you fix up your house so you can sell it and get out of here?

    Church Ball (2006)

  • I bought a wreck of a house, fixed it up, and sold it for three times what I paid.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • They buy a piece of property, they fix it up and they then flip it and sell it to an end buyer.

  • Zavaglia's son, Joe Zavaglia, said they plan to fix up the property and sell it as a single-family house.

    Blog text (9)

  • I need to fix up a meeting with my colleagues to discuss the project.

  • Can you help me fix up an appointment with the doctor next week?

  • She managed to fix up a dinner invitation for her friends on Saturday.

Synonyms

to set up
vsto fix up
983 2.7

To assemble and prepare equipment or objects so they are ready to use

means arranging meetings or appointments, not physical assembly or preparation
to arrange
vsto fix up
814 2.0

To plan and organize something so it can happen

is about planning meetings or appointments rather than physical preparation
to organize
vsto fix up
  • US
662 1.6

Arrange people, things, and activities so they work well

focuses on arranging meetings and appointments rather than broad coordination

Antonyms

to cancel
814 1.0

To decide that a planned event will not happen

How Arranged

to set up
983 2.7
to fix up
25 2.8
to organize
  • US
662 1.6
to suggest
∞ 1.6

Surface Forms

fix up infinitive
fixed up past
fixed up past participle
fixing up present participle
fixes up third person singular

Morphology

fix + up

The verb 'fix' can carry a meaning of setting or arranging and the particle 'up' often adds a sense of completion or an arranged outcome, so a learner who knows the parts could plausibly infer that 'fix up' involves arranging or putting something in order. However, the particular pragmatic nuance — arranging something for someone as a favor or facilitating a meeting — is tied to phrasal-verb usage and not fully predictable from the constituents alone, making the expression only partially transparent.

Etymology

Fix up comes from the simple image of making something ready: fix (to prepare or repair) and up (to finish). When you fix up a meeting you put all the parts in place and finish the plan, so it means 'to arrange' or 'organize' something.