arrangeverb
uk/əˈreɪndʒ/us/əˈreɪndʒ/arrange verb (PLAN)
B1 [ I or T ] to plan, prepare for, or organize something:
I'm trying to arrange my work so that I can have a couple of days off next week.
The meeting has been arranged for Wednesday.
[ + to infinitive ] They arranged to have dinner the following month.
I've already arranged with him to meet at the cinema.
She's arranged for her son to have swimming lessons.
[ + that ] I'd deliberately arranged that they should arrive at the same time.
[ + question word ] We haven't yet arranged when to meet.
More examples
- My secretary will phone you to arrange a meeting.
- The company will arrange transport from the airport.
- I've specially arranged my trip so that I'll be home on Friday evening.
- We've arranged to stay overnight at my sister's house.
- They tried to arrange a ceremony with as little fuss as possible.
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Planning, expecting and arranging
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- advertent
- advisedly
- aim
- aim at sth
- calculate
- chart
- engineer
- in the pipeline idiom
- intend
- intent
- intention
- intentional
- promise
- scheme
- scientific
- see sth coming idiom
- set sth up
- strategic
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arrange verb (PUT IN POSITION)
B2 [ T ] to put a group of objects in a particular order:
She arranged her birthday cards along the shelf.
Who arranged these flowers so beautifully?
His books are neatly arranged in alphabetical order.
More examples
- I'll have to do some thinking about how best to arrange the books.
- The desks were arranged in rows of ten.
- I've arranged the pictures of the animals alphabetically from aardvark to zebra.
- I've arranged the books alphabetically so don't muddle them up.
- We arranged the chairs in a semicircle.
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Classifying and creating order
- alphabetize
- arrangement
- catalogue
- categorize
- classification
- format
- kingdom
- lay sth out
- prioritize
- put sth/sb in a pigeonhole idiom
- range
- reconstruct
- rejig
- scientific
- stream
- topology
- track
- tracking
- triage
- umbrella
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arrange verb (MUSIC)
[ T ] to make changes to a piece of music so that it can be played in a different way, for example by a particular instrument:
Beethoven's fifth symphony has been arranged for the piano.
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Technical music terms
- accidental
- adagio
- allegro
- antiphonal
- arpeggio
- arr
- atonal
- cadence
- harmony
- key signature
- legato
- mike check
- motif
- pizzicato
- timbre
- tuning
- twelve-tone
- twelve-tone scale
- unison
- up-tempo
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arranger
noun [ C ] uk/əˈreɪn.dʒər/us/əˈreɪn.dʒɚ/
a flower arranger
The famous jazz musician Duke Ellington was a composer, arranger, and pianist.