or|gan|ize

or|gan|ize
or|gan|ize «AWR guh nyz», verb, -ized, -iz|ing.
–v.t.
1. to put into working order; get together and arrange: »

The explorer organized an expedition to the North Pole.

SYNONYM(S): form, systematize.
2. to bring together into a labor union (the workers of a particular industry): »

to organize the truckers, to organize the steel industry.

3. to furnish with organs; provide with an organic structure; make organic.
4. Slang. to steal; talk someone out of (something): »

We tracked the group down in a butcher shop, where they were busy organizing some sausage from the reluctant proprietor (New Yorker).

–v.i.
1. to combine in a company, political party, labor union, or other group; form an organization: »

The employees organized in an effort to form a union.

2. to assume organic structure; become living tissue.
╂[< Late Latin organizāre to play on the organ (in Medieval Latin, organize) < Latin organum < Greek órganon organ]

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