Organize Organized Organizing People Food Time Verb Bre

• to organize a meeting/party/trip
• i'll invite people if you can organize food and drinks.
• modern computers can organize large amounts of data very quickly.
• you should try and organize your time better.

organize

1. to arrange for something to happen or to be provided
• to organize a meeting/party/trip
• I'll invite people if you can organize food and drinks.
2. to arrange something or the parts of something into a particular order or structure
• Modern computers can organize large amounts of data very quickly.
• You should try and organize your time better.
• We do not fully understand how the brain is organized.
3. to plan your/somebody’s work and activities in an efficient way
• I'm sure you don't need me to organize you.
4. to form a group of people with a shared aim, especially a union or political party
• the right of workers to organize themselves into unions

Extra Examples

• They organized the festival jointly with the French cultural service.
• We need to organize the work according to the availability and skills of each volunteer.
• We’re organizing the evening around a Japanese theme.
• He was excluded from the talks, which he had helped to organize.
• I’ve organized a lot of school trips.
• It was difficult to organize a meeting at a time that suited everyone.
• The committee will organize the food for the reception.
• The festival was organized jointly with their French counterparts.
• The president’s aides quickly organized a press conference.
• The series of lectures was organized by a group of city economists.
• The students are organizing a protest march.
• Who’s organizing the event?

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they organize
• he / she / it organizes
• past simple organized
• past participle organized
• -ing form organizing

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from medieval Latin organizare, from Latin organum ‘instrument, tool’, from Greek organon ‘tool, instrument, sense organ’.