different between organize vs reorganization

English

Alternative forms

• organise (British)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French organiser, from Medieval Latin organiz?, from Latin organum (“organ”); see organ.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?????na?z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????na?z/
• Hyphenation: or?gan?ize

Verb

organize (third-person singular simple present organizes, present participle organizing, simple past and past participle organized)

1. (transitive) To arrange in working order.
2. (transitive) To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
   • 1803, William Cranch, Marbury v. Madison

     This original and supreme will organizes the government.

3. (transitive, chiefly used in the past participle) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life

   • These nobler faculties in the mind of man, […] matter organized could never produce.

4. (transitive, music) To sing in parts.

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5. (transitive, intransitive) To band together into a group or union that can bargain and act collectively; to unionize.

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Further reading

• organize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• organize in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• agonizer

Portuguese

Verb

organize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of organizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of organizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of organizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of organizar

English

Alternative forms

• reorganisation

Etymology

From re- +? organization.

Noun

reorganization (countable and uncountable, plural reorganizations)

1. The act or process of rearranging. See reorganize.
2. The end result of such an act.

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