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Definition: Organizer |
OrganizerNoun1. A person who organizes. 2. Someone who enlists workers to join a union. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "organizer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
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Sports & Leisure | The person who, other than occasionally, organizes packages and sells or offers them for sale, whether directly or through a retailer. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: OrganizerSynonyms: arranger (n), labor organizer (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Organizer |
| English words defined with "organizer": Adams ♦ Debs ♦ Eugene V. Debs, Eugene Victor Debs ♦ orderer ♦ Sam Adams, Samuel Adams, systematist, systematizer, systemizer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "organizer": MOC ♦ Organizers, Embryonic. (references) |
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Screenplays | It's an organizer, a memory and an old friend (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
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![]() | In: "The Meteor Expedition," by F. Spiess, German Atlantic Expedition 1925-1927. Alfred Merz, Director of the Meereskunde in Berlin and planner and organizer of the METEOR Expedition. Unfortunately he died in Buenos Aires in 1925 at the beginning of the expedition. Library Call Number C/La S755. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Lucien Koch, organizer in Quincy, Massachusetts for the IUMSWA (Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of of America). He is active in organizing a committee to demand a housing program for Quincy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Leif Dahl, organizer of agricultural workers union speaking at union meeting in Bridgeton, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Workers' Alliance organizer speaking at meeting. Muskogee, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Union organizer attempts to better working conditions amongst tiff miners. Washington County, Missouri. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California. Organizer for United Cannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America (Congress of Industrial Organizations-CIO) talks to mixed crowd. The strike failed. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Negroes and whites at Workers' Alliance meeting listening to organizer. Muskogee, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton picker's child listening to speeches of organizer at strike meeting to raise wages from seventy-five cents to ninety cents a hundred pounds. Strike unsuccessful. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Mary "Mother" Jones, labor organizer, 1830-1930. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | May Day : a day in the life of a woman organizer : a musical satire. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | For more information, please contact the organizer, Intel Association. (references) | |
Firms interested in other trade events should contact show organizer listed below. (references) | ||
This year for the first time the largest organizer of fairs in Poland opened a new event featuring only construction machinery - Bumasz. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Mexico | The police allegedly assaulted the group during questioning to determine the identity of the trip's organizer. (references) |
Belarus | Charges were dropped in one of the two cases, but the organizer of the picket was awaiting trial at year's end. (references) | |
Paraguay | The protestors organizer, Agustin Konrad of the Agricultural Association of Paraguay, met with the Ministers of Interior, Treasury, Public Works, and Agriculture, who said that they would discuss the farmer's demands once the protest was lifted. (references) | |
Economic History | Costa Rica | The private trade fair organizer, FERCORI, has at least one international trade fair every year. (references) |
Armenia | Public demonstrations usually take place without government interference, though one rally in November 2000 by an opposition party was followed by the arrest and imprisonment for a month of its organizer. (references) | |
Ukraine | The presence of a Western tender organizer often makes selling to the government a more transparent practice, providing for published deadlines, proposal criteria, and more importantly, Western oversight in making final procurement decisions. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ghana | The National Organizer claimed that the police refused to show him a warrant and told him they were searching his house for counterfeit foreign currency. (references) |
Zimbabwe | In April 2000, a group of war veterans, including active duty defense force personnel in civilian clothing, abducted MDC organizer and commercial farmer David Stevens from his farm and took him to their base in Murewa, where they beat him badly and then shot and killed him. (references) | |
China | In 2000 the Government prevented Ding Zilin, an organizer of relatives of the victims of the Tiananmen massacre, from meeting the widow of a prominent foreign author, and the Government continued to freeze bank accounts kept by Ding Zilin and others containing funds to help families of the Tiananmen Square massacre victims. (references) | |
Trade | Azerbaijan | U.S. firms planning to exhibit at major trade exhibitions in Azerbaijan need to work closely with the show organizer well in advance to ensure timely and proper temporary declaration of goods to be exhibited. (references) |
Travel | China | The exhibition organizer must obtain advance approval from the Customs, provide certain shipping documents and a list of items to be exhibited, and coordinate with Customs officials. (references) |
Worker Rights | Cameroon | The Ministry of Labor has reported no complaints of such discrimination during recent years; however, one organizer of the Union for Telecommunications Workers has claimed that his state-owned company demoted him due to his union activism. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Organizer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.50% of the time. "Organizer" is used about 200 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 99.5% | 199 | 21,651 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 200 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "organizer": labor organizer ♦ nucleolar organizer ♦ nucleolus organizer ♦ Nucleolus Organizer Region ♦ organizer of a festival ♦ party organizer ♦ personal organizer ♦ professional conference organizer ♦ tour organizer. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "organizer": co-organizer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
closet organizer | 1,942 | computer cable organizer | 73 |
organizer | 1,139 | drawer organizer | 71 |
graphic organizer | 426 | jewelry organizer | 65 |
professional organizer | 363 | event organizer | 64 |
garage organizer | 356 | organizer software | 60 |
personal organizer | 256 | photo organizer | 59 |
electronic organizer | 232 | recipe organizer | 58 |
lotus organizer | 216 | music organizer | 56 |
coupon organizer | 214 | trunk organizer | 54 |
cd organizer | 179 | handheld organizer | 53 |
mp3 organizer | 176 | national association of professional organizer | 53 |
shoes organizer | 152 | mail organizer | 53 |
home organizer | 140 | car organizer | 52 |
desk organizer | 118 | file organizer | 52 |
kitchen organizer | 116 | conference organizer | 50 |
palm organizer | 99 | cabinet organizer | 50 |
bill organizer | 98 | organizer purse | 50 |
wedding organizer | 88 | sharp electronic organizer | 49 |
desktop organizer | 80 | pill organizer | 49 |
sharp organizer | 75 | tool organizer | 49 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "organizer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | organizues (sponsor), organizator (mastermind), udhëheqës (chief, chieftain, conductor, directive, director, directory, fugleman, guide, headman, heuristic, instructor, leader, manager, managing, mentor, supervisor). (various references) | |
Arabic | مفكرة (aide-memoire, calendar, notebook, pocket book), منظم (arranger, disposed, governor, in good order, marshaled, neat, orderly, organized, regular, steward, systematic, tidy, well arranged, well ordered, well-organized), جدول أعمال (agenda, protocol, schedule), المنظم (regulator, steward), المرأة المنظمة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | организатор (sponsor). (various references) | |
Chinese | 組"者 , 组织者. (various references) | |
Czech | organizátor (leader, manager). (various references) | |
Danish | organisator, rejsearrangør. (various references) | |
Dutch | organisator. (various references) | |
Finnish | järjestelijä, järjestäjä (arranger, monitor). (various references) | |
French | organisateur (organizational). (various references) | |
German | Veranstalter (operator, promoter), Organisator (analyst, promoter). (various references) | |
Greek | οργανωτήσ, διοργανωτήσ, διοργανωτής. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מאר'ן (steward). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szervezõ, rendezõ (arranger, director, regulator, stage direction). (various references) | |
Italian | organizzatore (organiser, organizing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 創立者 (founder), 創立者 (founder), オリン"ック憲 (alternate, alternative, Olympic Charter, Olympos, OPP, organ, organize, 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, organize, orgasm, orgy, orgy party, orthodox, ostrich), 主催者 (promoter, sponsor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そうりつしゃ (founder), しゅさいしゃ (chairman, president, promoter, sponsor), オーガナイザー , オルグ (organize), オルガナイザー . (various references) | |
Korean | 조직자. (various references) | |
Manx | reagheyder (arbitrator, arranger, decider, editor, settler, umpire). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | organizeray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | organizador (fugleman), operador (operating, operator). (various references) | |
Romanian | organizator (organizing). (various references) | |
Russian | организатор (sponsor). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | organizator (promoter). (various references) | |
Spanish | organizador (cataloguer, cheerleader). (various references) | |
Swedish | organiserare. (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้จั"ตั้ง (organiser). (various references) | |
Turkish | organizatör (promoter), düzenleyici (compensator, grader, organizing, promoter, regulating, regulative, regulator, regulatory, trimmer), düzenleyen kimse, örgütleyici. (various references) | |
Turkmen | guramaзy. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | організатор (sponsor). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conditor, conditores, conditorum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "organizer": organizers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "organizer": reorganizer. (additional references) | |
Words containing "organizer": reorganizers. (additional references) | |
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"Organizer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: oranizer, orgaaniser, Orgainiser, orgainse, Orgainser, Organaire, organie, organiser, organite, organiz, organizor, orginise, orginize. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "organizer" (pronounced ô"rgunī'zer) |
| 5 | -u n ī' z er | colonizer, ionizer, womanizer. |
| 3 | -ī' z er | energizer, advertiser, analyzer, appetizer, atomizer, compromiser, equalizer, exerciser, fertilizer, franchiser, itemizer, merchandiser, moisturizer, oxidizer, plasticizer, polarizer, popularizer, stabilizer, sterilizer, supervisor, sympathizer, synthesizer, tranquilizer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-o-r-r-z" | |
-1 letter: orangier, organize, razoring. | |
-2 letters: agonize, angrier, earring, grainer, grazier, groaner, ignorer, rangier, rearing, roaring, zeroing, zingare, zingaro. | |
-3 letters: agnize, earing, eringo, erring, gainer, garner, garron, gorier, grazer, ignore, ironer, oaring, onager, onagri, orange, origan, ranger, raring, razing, reagin, regain, regina, region, ringer, zanier, zinger. | |
-4 letters: agone, airer, anger, argon, azine, garni, gazer, genoa, genro. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-o-r-r-z" | |
+1 letter: organizers, reorganize. | |
+2 letters: gormandizer, overgrazing, reorganized, reorganizer, reorganizes. | |
+3 letters: gormandizers, overorganize, reorganizers, reorganizing, repolarizing, revalorizing. | |
+4 letters: overorganized, overorganizes, propagandizer, reauthorizing, renormalizing. | |
+5 letters: overgeneralize, overorganizing, propagandizers, regularization, reorganization, repopularizing. | |
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