organize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb create (as an entity)
    organise; form.
    • social groups form everywhere
    • They formed a company
  2. verb cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea
    organise.
  3. verb plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
    direct; organise; engineer; mastermind; orchestrate.
    • he masterminded the robbery
  4. verb bring order and organization to
    coordinate; organise.
    • Can you help me organize my files?
  5. verb arrange by systematic planning and united effort
    prepare; devise; machinate; get up; organise.
    • machinate a plot
    • organize a strike
    • devise a plan to take over the director's office
  6. verb form or join a union
    organise; unionize; unionise.
    • The auto workers decided to unionize

WordNet

Or"gan*ize transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. organiser, Gr. . See Organ.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Organized ; present participle & verbal noun Organizing
Definitions
  1. (Biol.) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.
    These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce. Ray.
  2. To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc.
    This original and supreme will organizes the government. Cranch.
  3. (Mus.) To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem. R. Busby.

Webster 1913