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Definition: Organize |
OrganizeVerb1. Create, as of a social group or a company, for example. 2. Cause to be organized. 3. Plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery". 4. Bring order and organization to; "Can you help me organize my files?". 5. Arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office". 6. Form or join a union. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "organize" was first used: 1413. (references) |
Note: Organize \Or"gan*ize\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Organized; present participle verb or noun Organizing.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Labor | To form into a union; to organize into a trade union; bring into or incorporate in a trade union. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A labor union (American English) or trade union (British English) is a commercial entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the trades workers in a particular industry. The union is formed for the purpose of collectively negotiating with an employer (or employers) over wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment.
History
The concept of labor unions began early in the industrial revolution. More and more people left farming as an occupation and began to work for employers, often in appalling conditions and for very low wages. The labor movement arose as an outgrowth of the disparity between the power of employers and the powerlessness of individual employees.
Labor unions were illegal for many years in most countries. There were severe penalties for attempting to organize labor unions, up to and including execution. Despite this, labor unions were formed and began to acquire political power, eventually resulting in a body of labor law which not only legalized organizing efforts, but codified the relationship between employers and those employees organized into labor unions. Many consider it an issue of fairness that workers be allowed to pool their resources in a special legal entity in a similar way to the pooling of capital resources in the form of corporations.
Today a government-imposed ban on joining a union is often considered to be a human rights abuse. Most democratic countries have many unions, while most authoritarian regimes do not.
Unions not guilds
Unions are sometimes mistakenly thought to be successors to medieval guilds. Although guilds also existed to protect and enhance their members' livelihoods, guilds were groups of self-employed skilled craftsmen who had ownership and control over the materials and tools they needed to produce their goods. Guilds, in other words, were small business associations.
A union, in sharp contrast, is an organisation of hired workers who, generally speaking, own and control only their own ability to labor, not the tools or materials they work on. While industrial era unions could and often did consist of highly skilled factory workers, one of the radical breaks with the past was that unions could be constituted for essentially unskilled workers, even poor agricultural labourers.
Shop types
Companies that employ workers with a union generally operate on one of several models:
- In the closed shop, a business may only hire workers who already belong to the union (but see below).
- In the union shop, a business may hire anyone, but workers must join the union within a designated amount of time after they start work (this is known as a "closed shop" in British English)
- In the agency shop, workers may choose to not join the union, but must pay a fee to the union for its services in negotiating their contract.
- In the open shop, a business may employ anyone it likes, regardless of their union status, and workers are not required to associate with a union at all.
The Problem of International Comparison
As labor law is very diverse in different countries, so is the function of Labor Unions. For instance in Germany, only open shops are legal. This affects the function and services of the union. On the other hand, German unions have played a greater role in management decisions through participation in corporate boards and co-determination than have unions in the United States.
In addition, unions have very different relationships with political parties in different countries. In many countries unions are integrally associated with a particular political party, usally those which are left-wing or socialist. In the United States, by contrast, while the labor movement is historically aligned with the Democratic Party, the labor movement is by no means monolithic on that point; the International Brotherhood of Teamsters has supported Republican Party candidates on a number of occasions and the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization endorsed Ronald Reagan in 1980, shortly before he destroyed it and banned all of its striking members from employment as air traffic controllers in 1981. In the United Kingdom the labor movement's relationship with the Labour Party is fraying as Party leadership embarks on privatization plans at odds with workers' interests.
Finally, the structure of employment laws affects unions' roles. In many western European countries wages and benefits are largely set by governmental action. The United States takes a more laissez faire approach, setting some minimum standards but leaving most workers' wages and benefits to collective bargaining and market forces.
Trade Unions in Britain
The legal status of trade unions in the United Kingdom was established by a Royal Commission, which agreed that the establishment of the organisations was to the advantage of both employers and employees. Most British unions are members of the TUC, the Trades Union Congress, which is the country's sole national trade union center.
Labor Unions in the US
Most labor unions in the United States are members of the AFL-CIO, or the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations. The Taft-Hartley Act, passed in 1947 over the veto of President Harry Truman, severely limits the powers of unions in the United States, and remains in effect. Closed shops are forbidden; union shops are allowed within the limits allowed by the statute and subject to additional conditions imposed by the National Labor Relations Board and the courts. Jurisdictional strikes (where two unions each claim work that they believe should be assigned to the workers they represent) and secondary boycotts (boycotts against an allegedly neutral company that does business with another company with which a union has labor dispute) were made illegal. Unions are no longer allowed to donate money to federal political campaigns.
Most importantly, the bill provided the executive branch of the Federal government with the ability to obtain legal strikebreaking injunctions if an actual or impending strike "imperiled the national health or safety", a test that has been in practice interpreted loosely by the courts.
Many US unions lost much of their prestige when links to organized crime were discovered. Union membership has been steadily declining for the past decade or so in all but the public sector (that is, unions of government employees).
Other
Some countries such as Sweden have strong, centralized unions, where every type of work has a specific union, which are then gathered in large national unions. The largest Swedish union is LO, Landsorganisationen. LO has over 2.1 million members, which is more than a fifth of Sweden's population. The largest organization of trade union members in the world is the Brussels-based International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which today has 231 affiliated organisations in 150 countries and territories, with a combined membership of 158 million.
News
There are several sources of current news about the trade union movement in the world. These include LabourStart and the official website of the international trade union movement Global Unions.
See also Salting, Labor law, List of labor unions, strike
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Labor union."
Synonyms: OrganizeSynonyms: coordinate (v), devise (v), direct (v), engineer (v), form (v), get up (v), machinate (v), mastermind (v), orchestrate (v), organise (v), prepare (v), unionize (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: disorganize (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arrangement | Methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix. unravel, disentangle, ravel, card; disembroil; feaze. |
Continuity | Arrange in a series, collate; Noun: string together, file, thread, graduate, organize, sort, tabulate. |
Plan | Cast, recast, systematize, organize; arrange; digest, mature. |
Production | Verb: produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish; (complete). |
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Screenplays | I'll organize revolt, exact a death for a death, and I'll never rest until every Saxon in this shire can stand up free men and strike a blow for Richard and England (The Adventures of Robin Hood; writing credit: Norman Reilly Raine ; Seton I. Miller) I exist that the Cylon empire may grow and organize the universe (Battlestar Galactica; writing credit: Souleymane Cissé) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Deciding to Organize (1968) | |
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 | Pictured is a head x-ray taken by a CAT scanner. This diagnostic technique uses computers to organize thousands of x-rays, taken by a rotating machine around the patient. When first applied in the 1970's it revolutionized detection of brain tumors. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Senator, don't try to organize a hill-billy band... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Boarded-up homes in abandoned mining town. Twin Branch, West Virginia. Once very nice, owned by Ford. About four years ago when an attempt to organize it was made, Ford closed it down completely rather than have it unionized. Around 1000 men used to work. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portsmouth, Ohio, "Hams" (amateur radio operators) of Portsmouth and vicinity meeting to organize for civilian defense. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Step-- by-- step-- organize the masses around the armed struggle for total revolution. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Power flows from the industries of the land : the working class must organize to take the industries ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Don't mourn : organize! : remember the Augusta six. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt | You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies. |
Henry Ward Beecher | Life represents the efforts of men to organize society; government, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. |
Joe Hill | Don't waste any time mourning -- organize! |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything. |
Oscar Wilde | Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force. |
Theodore Roosevelt | It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Through a technique known as modeling, they can help organize their children's thoughts and provide them with examples of how to express oneself. (references) | |
The part of the epithelium that serves as the foundation on which the epithelial cells anchor and organize themselves is called the basement membrane. (references) | ||
Occupational therapists specializing in sensory integration therapy can work with children with Fragile X to help them organize environmental stimuli and to improve their response to formal education. (references) | ||
Business | Some also organize motorhomes or motorcycles for travelers. (references) | |
The law does not grant workers the right to organize unions or to strike. (references) | ||
Other than these, companies organize their own training programs and seminars. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Italy | Professional associations organize and operate freely. (references) |
Slovak Republic | Allegedly the moneylenders organize these trips for the Romani families. (references) | |
Poland | Private associations need government approval to organize and must register with their district court. (references) | |
Economic History | Argentina | Sellers still have to organize on-line catalogs of their products. (references) |
India | USDOC and the U.S. Commercial Service in India organize catalog exhibitions. (references) | |
Bolivia | Bolivian Labor Law guarantees workers the right to organize and bargain collectively. (references) | |
Human Rights | Iran | However, their ability to meet, organize, and effect change is curtailed severely by the Government. (references) |
Brazil | States organize their own judicial systems but must adhere to the basic principles in the Constitution. (references) | |
China | In March the vice-chairman of the CDP's Hubei province branch, Lu Xiaolan, was detained as he tried to organize a CDP meeting in Wuhan. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Guatemala | Indigenous people continued to organize themselves into interest groups to promote bilingual education, women's rights, and community development. (references) |
Political Economy | SAUDI ARABIA | Non-Saudi workers who seek to organize may be deported. (references) |
BELGIUM | This includes freedom to organize and join unions of their own choosing. (references) | |
Political Rights | Belarus | Despite strong regime opposition, independent domestic observers attempted to organize a parallel vote tabulation in order to increase the transparency of the vote. (references) |
Turkmenistan | The Government announced the election barely a month before the voting day, giving opposition groups insufficient time to organize and qualify to submit a candidate. (references) | |
Yemen | Some oppositionists contend that they are unable to organize new parties because of the prohibitively high legal requirements regarding the minimum number of members and leaders. (references) | |
Trade | Nigeria | To organize tests and do everything necessary to ensure compliance with Standards designated and approved by the Standards Council. (references) |
Hong Kong | In cooperation with ADB and the Commerce Department's Office of Multilateral Development Banks Operations, the Office helped organize seminars in four U.S. cities in May 2001 (Honolulu, Phoenix, Boston and Birmingham). (references) | |
Travel | Colombia | Keeping in mind (and planning for) a long wait for a U.S. visa is especially important for companies that organize cruises and incentive travel. (references) |
Worker Rights | Zimbabwe | The LRA provides workers with the right to organize. (references) |
Grenada | All workers are free to organize independent labor unions. (references) | |
Chile | Police and military personnel may not organize collectively. (references) | |
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Bill Maher | I mean, that's an issue that I have fought for very much for purely philosophical reasons. Btu I find it, as usual with this cause, very hard to get the people to organize in the way they should. |
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Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | On the contrary, the war has demonstrated how effectively we can organize our productive system and develop the potential abilities of our people by aiding the efforts of private enterprise. |
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| "Organize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 79.59% of the time. "Organize" is used about 827 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 79.59% | 658 | 9,954 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20.29% | 168 | 24,050 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.12% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 827 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "organize": organize oneself. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "organize": re-organize. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "organize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | organiseer. (various references) | |
Albanian | organizoj (call, plan, put on), sistemoj (collate, dispose, house, place, regulate, settle, shelve, systematize), shndërroj në materie organike, formoj (constitute, construct, create, form, found, make, make up, Mold, mould, shape). (various references) | |
Arabic | نظم (adjust, arrange, array, bed, cast, code, codify, collocate, compose, construct, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, lay, line, marshal, mastermind, measure, order, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, reform, regiment, regulate, regulation, right, seed, settle, shape, shuffle, sort, spruce up, stage, streamline, systematize, verse), تنظم في نقابة, تنظم, تعضي, جعله ذا بنية عضوية, إنضم الي نقابة (syndicate), أنشأ (construct, cradle, evolve, fabricate, father, form, foster, found, founder, germinate, institute, nurture, originate, plant, start, structure, work up), أسس (establish, found, institute, plant, predicate, promote, set, set up, work up). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ставам член на профсъюз, ставам органичен, устройвам, уреждам (acquit, arrange, atone, compose, deal, dispose of, fix up, ground, negotiate, patch, patch up, pay, quit, regulate, set right, settle, sew up, tee up, work out, wrap, wrap up), учредявам (constitute, erect, found, institute), систематизирам (arrange, digest, systematize), основавам (base, bottom, charter, establish, found, ground, institute, launch, plant, promote, set up, start), организирам се, организирам (get together, mastermind, orchestrate, promote, put on, regiment, set on foot, sponsor, stage, stage-manage), превръщам (change, convert, gasify, metamorphose, ossify, powder, pulverize, reduce, transform, transmute, turn, vaporize, volatilize). (various references) | |
Chinese | 編 (arrange, compile, compose, edit, fabricate, group, plait, weave, write), 组织 (Listserv, organisation, organise, organised, Organization, organizational, organizationally, organized, Organizing, tissue). (various references) | |
Czech | organizovat (arrange, Mount, stage, systematize), zařídit (arrange, equip, fit out, fix, fix up, furnish, get up, manage, see to, settle, wangle), utřídit, uspořádat (arrange, dispose, dress, make up, order, put in order, regularize, regulate, re-sort, settle, sort), upravit (adapt, adjust, alter, arrange, do up, dress, fix, modify, readjust, redress, regulate, sleek, tidy, touch up, treat, trim). (various references) | |
Danish | organisere. (various references) | |
Dutch | regelen (arrange, fix up, put in order, regularize, regulate, tidy), organiseren. (various references) | |
Esperanto | organizi. (various references) | |
Farsi | تشکیلات دادن (Structure), سازمان دادن , سروصورت دادن , درست کردن (Adapt, Address, Agree, Build, Clean, Compose, Concoct, Devise, Emend, Fix, Gully, Integrate, Make, Mend, Redd, Regulate, Right, Straighten, Trim, Weave). (various references) | |
Finnish | organisoida, järjestyä (get into order, get organized), järjestäytyä (come to order), järjestänsä (come to order), järjestää (adjust, arrange, fix, fix up, put in order, settle, stage). (various references) | |
French | organiser (order, put in order). (various references) | |
German | organisieren (fix, get hold of, get up, incorporate, Mount, scrape through, scrape up, wangle), ordnen (arrange, collocate, fix up, Marshal, order, put in order, sort out, straighten out, tabulate, to arrange, to tabulate), einrichten (adapt, aim, arrange, construct, equip, establish, fit out, fix, fix up, furnish, install, institute, locate, open, reset, set, set up, start). (various references) | |
Greek | οργανώνω (mastermind, organise), διοργανώνω. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לעשות ס"ר, לערוך (arrange, array, dispose, draw up, edit, give, prepare, range), לא'" (merge, syndicate, wad), לאר'ן (arrange, regiment), ל"תאר'ן (be arranged, be organized), לס"ר (arrange, array, fix, ordain, order, put in order, put things straight, settle, straighten, trim), איר'ן. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tömörít (knit, mass, to bur, to burr, to caulk, to compact, to concrete, to condense, to knit, to thicken), szervez (arrange, fix up, to get up, to institute, to set up), rendez (arrange, fix up, order, regularize, sort, to acquit, to adjust, to calendar, to compose, to get up, to make up, to marshal, to order, to range, to regularize), megszervez (to fix up), elrendez (align, arrange, dispose, Marshal, order, pigeon-hole, tidy up, to arrange in tiers, to array, to calendar, to dispose, to do up, to lay out, to marshal, to pigeonhole, to pose, to put to rights, to range, to rank, to set sg to rights, to square, to tidy, to tidy up, trim), elõkészít (lead up to, Mount, precondition, prepare, ready), beoszt (assign, budget, subsume, to budget, to class, to divide up, to economize, to rank, to subsume). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengorganisasikan, mengatur (dispose, modulate, oversee, regulate, straighten up), mengadakan (create), menata (inlay, put in order). (various references) | |
Italian | organizzare (arrange, organise, plan, put on, stage), ordinare (appoint, arrange, arrange oneself, array, book, command, direct, dispose, draw oneself up, enjoin, file, indent, instruct, ordain, order, pit in order, prescribe, put in order, require, reserve, sort, to order). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | オリン"ック憲 (alternate, alternative, Olympic Charter, Olympos, OPP, organ, organizer, orgasm, orgone energy, orthophenyl phenol), エンボス 工 (auction, audience, audience survey, audio, audiometer, audio-visual, audition, auditorium, Austin, Australia, Australopithecus, Austria, authentic, authority, authorization, authorize, auto, auto door, auto focus, auto parlor, auto player, auto show, autobacks, autobiography, autocamping, auto-changer, autocracy, autocross, automatic, automatic clutch, automatic control, automatic stop, automatic transmission, automatic tuning deck, auto-nurse, autopilot, auxin, custom-made, eau de Cologne, embossment, enlargement, enrich, haute couture, made-to-order, motorcycle race, motorcycle), OA, oak, oaks, oats, ocean, ocean race, oceanaut, Odin, office automation, office lady, ogre, OK, OL, old girl, orc, orchard, orchestra, orchestra box, order, order entry system, order made, ordinary, organdy, organization, organizer, orgasm, orgy, orgy party, orthodox, ostrich). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | オーガナイズ , オルグ (organizer), オルガナイズ . (various references) | |
Korean | 편성하십시" (organise). (various references) | |
Manx | reaghey (arbitrate, arrange, brush out, decide, determine, disentangle, disentanglement, edit, set on fire; decision, umpire), cur er bun (engender, engineer, establish, inaugurate, instigate, launch, open up, put on, stage, start). (various references) | |
Papiamen | organisá. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | organizeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | organizar (arrange, fix up, form, stage, work out). (various references) | |
Romanian | organiza într-un sindicat, organiza (activate, arrange, erect, establish, order, regiment, settle, systematize, systemize), structura (structure), sistematiza (digest, order, systematize, systemize), se sistematiza, se planifica, se organiza, institui (constitute, establish, institute), forma (arise, compose, constitute, cultivate, educate, fashion, form, frame, garrison, knead, Mold, mould, shape, train), da viaţã (procreate), crea (build, coin, compose, construct, create, devise, engender, father, found, give forth, originate, produce, write), aranja (adjust, arrange, clench, compose, compound, concert, conclude, contrive, dispose, do, do out, engineer, fiddle, fix, fix up, impose, juggle, Marshal, order, pose, posture, put in order, put to rights, put up, set, set out, set to rights, settle, size, stage, Stow, straighten, suit, tidy, tidy up, trim), anima (actuate, animate, enliven, inspire, inspirit, liven, quicken), alcãtui (compile, compose, constitute, construct, create, devise, elaborate, form, frame, integrate, lay down), întemeia (base, create, erect, establish, form, found, institute, set out, underlain). (various references) | |
Russian | устроить (arrange, establish), организовывать (fix up), организовать (regiment), делать органическим. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | organizovati se, organizovati (marshal, mount), ustrojiti, urediti (arrange, do up, fix up, iron out, lay, put in order, redact, settle, tidy up), uhodati, udesiti (arrange, key, load, preen, redecorate, regulate, rig out, tune, tune up), prirediti (show, stage). (various references) | |
Spanish | organizar (arrange, array, be organized, catalog, catalogue, categorize, do organized, drum up, get organized, get up, give, host, light, line up, live up, make organized, organise, put together, stage, tell off). (various references) | |
Swedish | organisera (Mount, organise). (various references) | |
Thai | จั"ตั้ง (organise), จั"ระบบ (organise). (various references) | |
Turkish | organize olmak, organize etmek (promote, rustle up, whack up), kurmak (activate, base, build, build up, cog, conspire, constitute, construct, erect, establish, fix up, float, form, found, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, line up, pitch, plant, promote, put, put together, ruminate, set, set up, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), düzenlemek (arrange, calendar, collocate, compose, construct, coordinate, dispose, do, do out, draw, draw up, engineer, execute, fix up, forge, form, frame, get things square, get up, give, grade, lay out, line up, methodize, Mount, order, promote, put up, regularize, regulate, scheme, set, set out, shape, stage, string, whack up, work up), örgütlemek (rationalize). (various references) | |
Turkmen | saяhallaюdyrmak (put in order), horlanmak (grow thin), guramak (dry out), здklendirmek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ставати органічним, улаштувати (fix up), улаштовувати (accommodate, instal, install, put), роздобути (wangle), робити органічним, організувати, організовувати (regiment, stage), обладнувати місцевість, обирати голову комісії, налагоджувати, перетворювати на живу тканину. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | gu . . . si. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adparatu, adparatum, adparatus, apparere, apparet, conponam, conponamus, conpone, conponens, conponentes, conponere, conponeris, conpones, conponet, conponis, conponunt, conposita, conpositae, conpositam, conpositis, conposito, conpositum, conpositus, conposuerit, conposueritis, conposuerunt, conposuit, inconposita, inconpositos, organum, provenire. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "organize": organized, organizer, organizers, organizes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "organize": disorganize, outorganize, overorganize, reorganize. (additional references) | |
Words containing "organize": disorganized, disorganizes, outorganized, outorganizes, overorganized, overorganizes, reorganized, reorganizer, reorganizers, reorganizes, unorganized. (additional references) | |
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"Organize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Morganae, orgainse, Organaire, organi, organice, organie, organis, organisme, organite, organiz, orginise, orginize. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "organize" (pronounced ô"rgunī'z) |
| 7 | ô" r g u n ī' z | disorganize, reorganize. |
| 5 | -g u n ī' z | agonize, antagonize. |
| 4 | -u n ī' z | aluminize, balkanize, carbonize, colonize, communize, demonize, euthanize, galvanize, harmonize, hellenize, homogenize, humanize, ionize, lionize, mechanize, patronize, revolutionize, scrutinize, suburbanize, synchronize, unionize, urbanize, womanize. |
| 3 | -n ī' z | fraternize, immunize, ironize, modernize, recognize, westernize. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-o-r-z" | |
-1 letter: agonize, zeroing, zingare, zingaro. | |
-2 letters: agnize, earing, eringo, gainer, ignore, oaring, onager, onagri, orange, origan, razing, reagin, regain, regina, region, zanier, zinger. | |
-3 letters: agone, anger, argon, azine, garni, gazer, genoa, genro, giron, goner, gonia, grain, graze, groan, groin, irone, noria, orang, organ, range, regna, reign, renig, zaire, zoner. | |
-4 letters: aeon, aero, ager, agin, agio. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-o-r-z" | |
+1 letter: jargonize, organized, organizer, organizes, organzine. | |
+2 letters: gormandize, jargonized, jargonizes, organizers, organzines, reorganize. | |
+3 letters: disorganize, gormandized, gormandizer, gormandizes, gourmandize, organizable, outorganize, overgrazing, regionalize, reorganized, reorganizer, reorganizes, unorganized. | |
+4 letters: aerobicizing, aerosolizing, allegorizing, anthologizer, categorizing, demoralizing, depolarizing, disorganized, disorganizes, energization, gormandizers, gourmandized, gourmandizes, jeopardizing, outorganized, outorganizes, overorganize, propagandize, recognizable, recognizably, recognizance, regionalized, regionalizes, reorganizers, reorganizing, repolarizing, revalorizing, unglamorized. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
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