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📅 To arrange 🤝 To form a group
to organize

to organize

381 2.3
Help people form a group to act together for a common goal
  • verb
  • /ˈɔrɡəˌnaɪz/
  • US
translation icon : formar
  • Our experience has pointed to the need to organize women on all these fronts.
  • organize a group
  • organize a labor union
  • organize opposition

Slave trade and slavery were organized by the state.

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Examples

  • Recently, some private individuals and religious bodies now organize counseling sessions for couples with marital problems.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Every year too they organize a big civic meeting.

  • Our leaders listen, they organize and they act.

  • And this is just the way folks organize their information.

  • It's a standard question because they want to organize their resources.

  • Specifically, a tournament organized by Mr. Han.

    Enter the Dragon (1973)

  • Emila's here to help us, help us organize our lives.

  • They funded it, they organized it.

    2000 Mules (2022)

  • Bob Vander Plaats, a former Republican candidate for governor, organized an anti-retention effort called Iowa for Freedom.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The community leaders decided to organize a rally to address local issues.

Synonyms

to unite
vsto organize
∞ 2.1

To join people or things into one group for a shared purpose

implies forming an ongoing structured group rather than mere joining
to form
vsto organize
598 1.0

To create a group or organization

focuses on setting up a structured body or formal group
to found
vsto organize
305 3.9

Create something like a company, school, or town

focuses on building an ongoing structured group rather than just creating one
to constitute
vsto organize
  • Formal
98 4.8

To officially set up a group, committee, or system

is broader, covering general arranging and formation of groups
to pull together
vsto organize
50 3.4

Gather people or things and organize them to reach a goal

focuses on creating a lasting structured body rather than a short task group
to unionize
vsto organize
  • US
22 5.8

To join or form a group of workers that speaks to their employer about pay and work conditions

is wider, meaning to set up various formal groups beyond worker collectives

Antonyms

to dissolve
  • Formal
60 4.1

To officially end an organization, agreement, or relationship

to disband
43 4.3

To stop being a group, for example a band or committee

Phrasal Verbs

to organize picket
  • US
4.6

Arrange and hold a protest outside a workplace to show what workers want

to organize union
  • US
4.3

To form a group of workers to represent and protect their rights

How Established

to establish
772 4.1
to organize
  • US
381 2.3
to assemble
152 3.3
to gather
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

organize infinitive
organise infinitive
organized past
organised past
organized past participle
organised past participle
organizing present participle
organising present participle
organizes third person singular
organises third person singular

Morphology

organize = organ (semi-transparent) = organ + ize

The verb is formed by the productive suffix '-ize' meaning 'make or become', but the modern noun 'organ' (body part/instrument) does not straightforwardly give the sense 'form a group' to many learners.

Etymology

Organize also comes from the Greek word organon, meaning 'tool' or 'instrument', and gives the image of making parts into a single working unit like an organ in the body or a musical organ. So to organize people is to bring them together into a group that works as one.