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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
arrange/organize an exhibition
▪ The trust arranged an exhibition of his drawings in New York.
organize a conference
▪ The administration organized a conference on Africa.
organize a demonstration
▪ A large demonstration was organized by the opposition.
organize a petition
▪ Local residents organized a petition against the closure of the library.
organize a protest
▪ She organized a protest outside the store.
organize a rally
▪ A rally organized by democratic movements was broken up by soldiers.
organize sth into groups
▪ Small children work best when they are organized into very small groups.
organize...boycott
▪ They are now trying to organize a boycott.
organized crime (=committed by large organizations of criminals)
▪ the growing threats of terrorism and organized crime
organized crime
▪ Organized crime is involved in drug trafficking.
organized opposition (=protest that people express by working together in an organized way)
▪ The proposal was passed with no organized opposition.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
▪ Nationalist and feminist women in Northern Ireland were organizing around basic issues of survival.
▪ Ideas come to be organized around what the community as a whole or particular audiences find acceptable.
▪ It has been organized around the three major publishing functions: editorial, production, marketing.
▪ The rural community is now organized around the farm and farming and defined in opposition to the urban newcomers.
▪ In our society, a woman's identity is still organized around the home, domestic work and child-rearing.
highly
▪ North Shields had highly organized workers in the yards and on the railways.
▪ Political resources: Substantial financial power, strong interest, a few highly organized producers, professional lobbyists. 5.
▪ They are the result of investment in highly organized scientific and engineering knowledge and skills.
▪ Richard and his two companions settle into a utopian but highly organized existence.
▪ But the trade is highly organized.
well
▪ There is no separate union for white-collar and management staff, and both unions organize well up the employment hierarchy.
▪ Professionals are well organized, never seen by their victims, and they don't kill.
▪ From everything I saw and heard, he seemed to be very well organized in Iowa.
▪ Their journeys were well organized by the super-efficient Head Girls but of course occasionally plans went awry.
▪ Others around us, and we ourselves, demand that we always be well organized and hopeful.
▪ Health or medical records and data systems in ambulatory care settings may not be as well organized as in inpatient care settings.
▪ Her groups were well organized, it was noted, and the children happy.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ The right to organize and direct the activities of others is built into the role of leader-manager.
▪ Paul, Amelia participated in none of the organized student activities at Hyde Park.
▪ It also ratified ordinances which allowed various crafts for the first time to organize their activities.
▪ A: How about soccer, gymnastics and other organized athletic activities?
▪ The medium-size and megaships are floating resorts with a wealth of entertainment facilities and organized activities.
▪ School teachers organize learning activities to accommodate groups of twenty or more.
boycott
▪ In mid-May blacks in the neighbouring township of Thabong organized a boycott of white-owned shops in Welkom.
▪ Attempts to organize boycotts of contributions by employers of servants were apparently unsuccessful.
campaign
▪ The workers will eventually take leaves of absence to assist in several regional organizing campaigns.
▪ They were the heart of our organizing campaign.
▪ It was too late to reprint the ballots, so the Machine organized a write-in campaign for Daley.
▪ Later, when Wilde ended up in Reading Gaol, Miller organized a fund-raising campaign for him.
▪ They have the right to organize and campaign like everybody else.
community
▪ For example, early attempts to organize financial community were not successful.
▪ Ideas come to be organized around what the community as a whole or particular audiences find acceptable.
▪ There is a huge gap in organizing the employer community in the United States.
conference
▪ In January 1912 he organized a conference of like-minded Social Democrats in Prague.
▪ She is organizing a conference on natural childbirth.
▪ The Führer has given to me the honour of organizing the conference and, of course, responsibility for his safety.
▪ Sometimes the club brought in speakers, or organized trips to professional conferences.
▪ And he's been invaluable in organizing the present conference.
demonstration
▪ The night it was tabled he organized a massive demonstration.
event
▪ They organize social and sporting events, weekends away and holiday trips.
▪ Pablo Ossio, who helped organize the event, said soccer is a great way to break down barriers.
▪ It took another year before the group felt confident enough to organize its first semi-open event - a disco.
▪ Her White House office played a key role in organizing the controversial event.
▪ He began organizing the event in earnest after the White House expressed support 10 days ago.
group
▪ The potential for other oppressed groups to be autonomously organized also put pressure on the Union to question its structures and attitudes.
▪ Desperately deprived groups do not organize to bring about the downfall of a political system.
▪ The fourth group organized a hearing on the dump here at school.
▪ In addition it is divided into regional and subject groups which organize meetings on a wide variety of topics.
▪ The first type, associational interest groups, are organized specifically to further political objectives of the groups' members.
▪ His personal multinational, the Tom Peters group, organizes his crowded annual schedule of seminars.
▪ In the days leading up to March 23, the group organized a phone-drive call-in against Contra aid.
life
▪ Getting organized makes life a lot easier and gives one a sense of control, experts say.
▪ Now he'd organized his life he felt slightly more cheerful, and cheerfulness always made him hungry.
▪ Rachel organized lives and romances as easily as her shoe-closet.
▪ These stresses may be exacerbated by the way the client organizes life at home and at work.
▪ Christmas was the main organizing principle of their lives for a month or more.
meeting
▪ In addition it is divided into regional and subject groups which organize meetings on a wide variety of topics.
▪ The foundation organized thousands of town meetings around the country to pulse people on public policy issues and possible solutions.
▪ In Brent, council leader Merle Amory had to organize an emergency meeting of the pension-fund investment panel.
▪ She organized the class meetings, and planned the class graduation program and the class events.
▪ To pursue this objective the Study Group organizes one day meetings and two day conferences.
▪ So if you want to organize a group meeting and include it on all the individual schedules, you can't.
▪ Also the division had been responsible for organizing 5 cinema meetings and a number of smaller meetings during the campaign weeks.
party
▪ The five were previously imprisoned from June until October 1990 for allegedly organizing a political party - all parties are prohibited.
▪ Simultaneously, they chose block committees, established communal kitchens, organized working parties, and formed a camp welfare committee.
▪ Today I decided that I would organize a little party tomorrow night.
▪ Condliffe organized a party for Woosnam which raised 350, enough to launch the voyage.
▪ I can't let him organize a search party.
▪ Fourteen years later, Condliffe was organizing a Masters victory party for two hundred, for which Woosnam was paying.
▪ I realized I'd no experience of organizing a memorial party and didn't know anybody who had.
▪ Historically, there were many political systems that had no organized parties.
protest
▪ I organized political protests, but also got two appointments from federal criminal courts.
rally
▪ The opposition defied curfews and continued to organize rallies and strikes to press for Ershad's resignation.
school
▪ Beyond the curriculum, the staff at Fratney works to organize the entire school in ways that are consistent with its philosophy.
▪ This requires that we think carefully about the ways we organize schools and the daily experiences children have within them.
▪ They could contain schools with different age groups and varying styles and ways of organizing.
society
▪ We can organize complex societies, like the bee, without love.
▪ But all these specific activities of government presuppose the existence of an organized political society.
▪ An international committee organized by the Internet Society recently recommended that new registrars be established to compete with Network Solutions.
system
▪ Complex societies have evolved in which production is organized in massively detailed systems of interdependency.
▪ These orientations expressed, and to some extent organized, the historical system of action.
▪ You should get some one to sponsor you, and organize your own system of rewards.
▪ School counselors can organize support systems both within and outside the school walls.
team
▪ He had organized the trophy-winning darts team, who had now held the local shield for a record five consecutive years.
▪ He has since organized a touring team to stay active in the game.
▪ These organize the workers into teams, get the contracts, control the funds - and generally make a packet.
▪ He then organized a team of five employees who revised the proposal and several other documents-without interrupting the regular work flow.
▪ Then as now, those flights were organized as teams.
▪ We organized teams of youths to load the bodies on oxcarts and take them to mass graves outside the city.
▪ It eliminated job classifications and organized workers into teams.
▪ All flightline maintenance was organized by teams.
union
▪ A department devoted to organizing new unions had already been set up to reverse the long decline in membership.
▪ According to the federal courts, the First Amendment protects the right of teachers to promote and organize a union.
▪ The man who was arrested while leading a protest against the dismissal of workers trying to organize a union.
way
▪ If the brain isn't organized in this way then this approach is artificially biased towards finding double dissociations.
▪ Describe your method, record your data in an organized way, and state your conclusions in a table.
▪ The mental stance the rational person seeks to organize in this way includes both beliefs and attitudes.
▪ But despite all this evidence, most organizations have yet to address the problem in any comprehensive or organized way.
▪ Salah Muhammad no doubt found his task relatively easy because opposition to women's education was not organized in any formal way.
▪ Memory, then, must organize itself in some way to accommodate more possible thoughts than it has room to store.
▪ He was still hard to under-stand, but he used difficult words in a more organized way.
▪ I can not organize the experience the way I organize my arguments, foregrounding certain details, glossing others.
woman
▪ We organized courses for women trade union leaders.
▪ There were only four women at the time but we all believed firmly in the need to organize women.
▪ We organized women around their own demands, such as work conditions, the lack of nurseries.
worker
▪ Social production also makes it easier for workers to organize themselves against the capitalists.
▪ It also allowed and even encouraged employers to threaten workers who want to organize.
▪ But the most effective channel for change is underground workers themselves, organizing into groups or networks.
▪ The man who was arrested while leading a protest against the dismissal of workers trying to organize a union.
▪ The different tasks undertaken by each worker are organized in sequence throughout the agricultural year.
■ VERB
begin
▪ As the general direction of O'Neill's policies became clear, conservative Protestants began to organize against him.
▪ But when one begins to consciously organize knowledge and shape it into practical patterns, the psyche divides against itself.
▪ We began to organize to help the disadvantaged in the community.
▪ His play began to be more organized also.
▪ Opposition began to be organized locally as well.
▪ He began organizing the event in earnest after the White House expressed support 10 days ago.
▪ It was then that courageous fans began organizing illicit exhibitions.
▪ Staff spoke out and students began to organize.
help
▪ What we are looking for is a framework, an accommodating structure that will help us to organize our information and ideas.
▪ Pablo Ossio, who helped organize the event, said soccer is a great way to break down barriers.
▪ When he was rejected because of high blood pressure, he helped organize a Boston center for GIs.
▪ Enabling software, which is usually bought by corporations, helps users to organize information and create their own software applications.
▪ At 53, he regularly reached the quarterfinals of pro tournaments on the circuit he helped organize.&038;.
▪ In 1911 Marinetti, the literary founder of Futurism, helped organize an exhibition of the Bragaglia brothers' photographs in Rome.
try
▪ As he shaved, he tried to organize his thinking.
▪ The man who was arrested while leading a protest against the dismissal of workers trying to organize a union.
▪ Let him try to organize his defences.
▪ Every aspect we tried to make as organized and comfortable as possible.
▪ Madeleine didn't try to organize the two of them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
well/badly/carefully etc organized
▪ From everything I saw and heard, he seemed to be very well organized in Iowa.
▪ In parliament there would be a carefully organized campaign of resistance that would at least slow the government down and raise Unionist morale.
▪ Now that the partisans were well organized in the Province of Parma they committed many acts of sabotage.
▪ Others around us, and we ourselves, demand that we always be well organized and hopeful.
▪ Professionals are well organized, never seen by their victims, and they don't kill.
▪ The anti-London lobby, however, was well organized and had financial arguments to back its case.
▪ They can also be extraordinarily well organized and methodical, as well as deliberate and purposeful.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Organize your notes very carefully before giving a speech.
▪ A key skill is the ability to organize information effectively.
▪ I've been asked to organize this year's Summer Carnival.
▪ I agreed to help organize the company picnic.
▪ I like the way you've organized the information in the report.
▪ Residents of the city have organized a boycott of the fast-food chain.
▪ Some day we should sit down and organize the photos from the trip.
▪ The book is organized into three sections.
▪ The paintings in the exhibition are organized into five sections.
▪ You might find that writing an outline will help you to organize your thoughts.
▪ You need to organize your financial records and figure out exactly how much money you owe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the first skit, a second-rate star is organizing a Wild West charity benefit.
▪ Lawyers, politicians and environmentalists have called for such action at an international conference in London organized by Greenpeace.
▪ The five were previously imprisoned from June until October 1990 for allegedly organizing a political party - all parties are prohibited.
▪ The right to organize and direct the activities of others is built into the role of leader-manager.