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ORGANIse

organize, organise - v 
cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea 

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Synonyms

construct, coordinatecreate, establish, form, formulate, regulate, run, set up, adapt, adjust, catalogue, classify, codify, combine, compose, constitute, correlate, dispose, fashion, fit, frame, group, harmonize, marshal, mold, pigeonhole, range

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Examples

Hitherto he had been based on the entrenched camp of Warsaw, but he had already taken steps to organize a new line of supply and retreat via Thorn, and this was now completed.

If I wanted someone to organize my life, I would have stayed back in Muskogee with my parents instead of moving here.

He wished to organize a special community of true Christians to wait for the coming of their Lord.

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Etymology

early 15c., organisen, "to construct, establish," from Old French organiser and directly from Medieval Latin organizare, from Latin organum "instrument, organ" (see organ). Meaning "to form into a whole consisting of interdependent parts" is from 1630s. The intransitive sense of "assume an organic structure" is by 1880. Related: Organized; organizing; organizable.

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