organise

See also: organisé

English

Alternative forms

• organize (American and Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From Middle French organiser.

Pronunciation

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Verb

organise (third-person singular simple present organises, present participle organising, simple past and past participle organised)

1. Non-Oxford British standard spelling of organize.
   • 1948, Report of the National Executive Committee [to The] Annual Conference, National Union of Mineworkers:

     The Lancashire Tradesmen's Association organises craftsmen, semi-skilled and unskilled workmen on the surface other than the manipulators of coal, enginemen, boilermen and locomen; it also organises skilled craftsmen underground, although some craftsmen are organised by the Lancashire Area, which seeks to organise all underground workers including craftsmen.

   • 1954 March, “Notes and News: S.L.S. Tour of Tilbury Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 215:

     To celebrate the centenary next month of the opening of the first section (Forest Gate to Tilbury) of the former London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, the Stephenson Locomotive Society is organising a special rail tour over that route and other lesser-known L.T.S.R. lines.

   • 2011, Carol Drinkwater, Return to the Olive Farm:

     Western Europe represented 20 per cent of the world's market. 'Listen, guys, go organic! I'll take care of both the shipping arrangements and la douane, the customs. I'll organise the transport of the little cutesters from South Africa […]

   • 2013 July 9, J Hsieh et al., “Cerebral venous thrombosis due to cryptogenic organising pneumopathy with antiphospholipid syndrome worsened by heparin-induced thrombocytopenia”, in BMJ Case Reports‎^[1], volume 2013, →DOI:

     The case reported here illustrates two rare causes of CVT observed in the same patient: the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies associated with an asymptomatic cryptogenic organising pneumopathy (COP) which were considered the origin of the venous cerebral thrombosis and heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) which was responsible for the worsening of the thrombosis observed a few days after the introduction of treatment.

   • 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.

Derived terms

• organised crime
• organiser
• organisation

Translations

organize — see organize

Anagrams

• Noriegas, Orangies, ignaroes, orangies, rogaines

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

organise

1. inflection of organiser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• agoniser, agréions, égarions, rongeais, soignera, songerai

Middle English

Adjective

organise

1. Alternative form of organic