arrangementnoun
uk/əˈreɪndʒ.mənt/us/əˈreɪndʒ.mənt/arrangement noun (PLAN)
B1 [ C usually plural ] a plan for how something will happen:
They'd made all the arrangements for the party.
[ + to infinitive ] Arrangements were made to move the prisoners to another jail.
What are your current childcare arrangements?
B2 [ C or U ] an agreement between two people or groups about how something happens or will happen:
[ + that ] We had an arrangement that he would clean the house and I would cook.
I'm sure we can come to an arrangement (= reach an agreement).
You can only withdraw money from this account by (prior) arrangement (= after making plans to do so) with the bank.
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- He has some special arrangement with his supplier, which means he's able to sell his goods more cheaply.
- The organizers failed to make the necessary arrangements for dealing with so many people.
- Seeing that he wasn't happy with the arrangements, I tried to book a different hotel.
- I'm a bit confused about the arrangements for tonight.
- All the travel arrangements have been taken care of.
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Plans and arrangements
- appointed
- blueprint
- bottom-up
- campaign
- card
- design
- game plan
- have a card up your sleeve idiom
- intention
- itinerary
- lock
- lock-in
- planning
- policy-making
- preparation
- programme
- project
- road map
- specification
- strategy
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arrangement noun (POSITION)
B2 [ C ] a group of objects that have been put in a particular order or position:
There was a striking arrangement of dried flowers on the table.
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Classifying and creating order
- alphabetize
- arrange
- 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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arrangement noun (MUSIC)
[ C ] a piece of music that has had changes made to it so that it can be played in a different way, especially by different instruments:
This new arrangement of the piece is for saxophone and piano.
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Musical pieces
- bolero
- bossa nova
- Britannia
- cantata
- cha-cha-cha
- fantasia
- nocturne
- octet
- opus
- passage
- playlist
- polka
- reel
- signature tune
- solo
- song form
- string quartet
- symphony
- trio
- tune
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