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organise

organise \organise\ v. t. Same as organize. [Chiefly Brit.]

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organise

vb. (standard spelling of organize from=British spelling English)

WordNet
organise
  1. v. bring order and organization to; "Can you help me organize my files?" [syn: organize, coordinate]

  2. create (as an entity); "social groups form everywhere"; "They formed a company" [syn: form, organize]

  3. form or join a union; "The autoworkers decided to unionize" [syn: unionize, unionise, organize]

  4. cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea [syn: organize] [ant: disorganize, disorganize]

  5. arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office" [syn: organize, prepare, devise, get up, machinate]

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

Usage examples of "organise".

America organised the first global antidrug conference in Shanghai in an attempt to persuade other nations to ban the Far Eastern opium trade.

With their arrival in Auckland, the Cause grew in that country and when Hyde Dunn left to return to Australia, Clara remained for a time to organise a study group in New Zealand.

Increasing bitterness swept throughout Germany, which the KPD attempted to capitalise on by organising hunger marches and demonstrations.

Some of them, however, excelled in certain narrow fields - the Maya were the master-mathematicians of the ancient world, the Inca had the most highly organised centralised government, the Chimu possibly the most able surgeons, the Greeks excelled at sculpture and abstract thought.

In this last and complete state, cirripedes may be considered as either more highly or more lowly organised than they were in the larval condition.

The air souring and, like badness in milk, particles of matter coagulating from nothing, clots of rank aether aggregated into organising shape, and then there was a moving insectile thing made of scabbed nothing and sudden shade that twisted in the air as if suspended by thread and glimmered visible and invisible and then was unquestionably there, a hook-legged thing in the colours of rot, as large as a man.

Because of the time it would inevitably take to organise, a congress that some had called for was never convened, but in compensation there were colloquia, seminars, round-table discussions, some open to the public, others held behind closed doors.

In the meantime Lord Kitchener, who had descended for a few days to De Aar, had shown great energy in organising small mobile columns which should follow and, if possible, destroy the invaders.

Whilst the Boers were making this daring raid a force consisting of several mobile columns was being organised by General Settle to arrest and finally to repel the western invasion.

From time to time the Maharishi would organise day trips to Dehra Dun or other nearby towns in order that the meditators did not get too cut off from everyday reality, though usually they would make their own arrangements.

Gavin had organised makeshift camps on the outskirts of the city for the families and the Army had set up soup kitchens serving milk, dhal and chappatis.

At this time it was reported that there were two thousand organised men at the Eureka barricade.

Labour Exchanges, in the second place, will increase and will organise the mobility of labour.

Nay more: by direction of the Girondists, a general insurrection was prepared in the fauxbourgs, and a body of ten thousand men organised in the quarter of St.

Often our school organised rallies when we would march around the villages playing drums, cymbals and other instruments, carrying gigantic pictures of Chairman Mao and waving red flags.