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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
orchestrate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an orchestrated campaigndisapproving (= organized secretly to make political events happen in the way you want)
▪ This resulted in an orchestrated campaign of civil disorder.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
carefully
▪ They had been procured in the early years of the century through a carefully orchestrated city campaign.
■ NOUN
campaign
▪ Molina had accused the media of orchestrating a campaign against him.
▪ They had been procured in the early years of the century through a carefully orchestrated city campaign.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Police believe Casey orchestrated the kidnapping.
▪ The so-called 'revolution' was in fact orchestrated by the CIA.
▪ Treasury officials are trying to orchestrate a sharp decline in the dollar.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again, there was no apology forthcoming from those who orchestrated the Ajar debacle.
▪ Among those orchestrating the changes is Rep.
▪ At this high point in his influence he orchestrated a movement whose significance would not become clear for three decades.
▪ But no one orchestrates their own music for Broadway because the casting is done just before rehearsals start.
▪ But, in short order, Lott orchestrated deals on a range of stalled legislation, from welfare reform to health care.
▪ By Monday, he was back at head office orchestrating the move.
▪ Horner was the principal architect of the air campaign and orchestrated its execution.
▪ You don't orchestrate your own music.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
orchestrate

orchestrate \orchestrate\ v. t.

  1. to write an orchestra score for; -- of a musical composition.

  2. To be the chief coordinator of (an activity requiring action by more than one person); to organize and coordinate.

    Syn: mastermind, engineer, direct, organize.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
orchestrate

"to compose or arrange (music) for an orchestra," 1855, back-formation from orchestration. The figurative sense is attested from 1883. Related: Orchestrated; orchestrating.

Wiktionary
orchestrate

vb. 1 To arrange or score music for performance by an orchestr

  1. 2 To compose or arrange orchestral music for a dramatic performance. 3 To arrange or direct diverse elements to achieve a desired effect

WordNet
orchestrate
  1. v. write an orchestra score for

  2. plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery" [syn: mastermind, engineer, direct, organize, organise]

Usage examples of "orchestrate".

Indeed, Admiral Ackbar had seemed the logical choice to represent Mon Calamari on the Advisory Council, as he had done back when the first Provisional Council was formed, but when the push for Pwoe - a push Luke suspected orchestrated by Borsk - had become serious, Ackbar had waved away all thoughts of rejoining the council and had retired.

From his organization, the conglomerate orchestrated the printing and distribution of one hundred seventy-six newspapers, twelve magazines, seventeen on-line research companies and united two hundred seven affiliate newsrooms across the U.

Solomon Oversoul, marshal of the jihad in service to the Witch-King of Corea, credited with orchestrating the defeat of the Bellipotent Composition during the Era of the Fifth Mental Structure.

To think that I helped orchestrate the event that will provide their precoital entertainment tomorrow night.

The continental wars, the influx of Southerling refugees, the rise of Corolini, everything has been orchestrated, planned for some purpose we do not know.

Honored Pedure is actually at Southmost in person, orchestrating things.

In addition to looking after the day-to-day affairs of his gallery, orchestrating his disputes with fellow members of the American Communist Party, and pulling off his celebrated fetes, he was also, in idle moments, writing a largely unpunctuated novel, already more than a thousand pages long, which described, in cellular detail, the process of his own birth.

But when he arrived in Canada in 1934, few people knew much about Charles Eugene Bedaux, and what they were told, thanks to his own carefully orchestrated publicity, was all flattering.

At a crucial moment, when the singing and blaring of martial brass had been silenced, Robespierre descended from the mountain like some Jacobinical Moses, parting the waves of tricolored patriots, and graciously received the burst of orchestrated applause that broke over his head.

Venice have been carefully orchestrated to leave the city helpless and at odds with itselfwhile Jagiellon has moved to precipitate a war in northern Italy.

He looked around, and saw Margit performing an elaborate Lissajous manoeuvre, smoothly orchestrating a dozen transitions at once.

He orchestrated their desires until they themselves began to believe that Mars was the logical objective of their own plans and ambitions.

Maybe the Oirat had summoned fell magic and orchestrated a ruse against Umai, the womb goddess to deceive her into giving the marks to Temuchin.

The careful pavane of jugs, orchestrated by a terrified Rushad, served by stone-faced women.

With the discovery of superstring theory, musical metaphors take on a startling reality, for the theory suggests that the microscopic landscape is suffused with tiny strings whose vibrational patterns orchestrate the evolution of the cosmos.