orchestrateverb [ T often passive ]
uk/ˈɔː.kɪ.streɪt/us/ˈɔːr.kə.streɪt/orchestrate verb [ T often passive ] (MUSIC)
to arrange or write a piece of music so that it can be played by an orchestra
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Writing, reading & studying music
- compose
- composition
- follow
- harmonize
- music
- music-making
- musical
- musicology
- pentatonic scale
- recompose
- setting
- sheet music
- sight-read
- sol-fa
- songwriter
- tone-deaf
- transpose
orchestrate verb [ T often passive ] (ARRANGE)
to arrange something carefully, and sometimes unfairly, so as to achieve a wanted result:
Their victory was largely a result of their brilliantly orchestrated election campaign.
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Managing and organizing
- act
- administer
- administration
- bureaucracy
- bureaucratic
- campaign
- have sth in hand idiom
- head sth up
- in hand idiom
- kaizen
- manage
- management
- run the show idiom
- running
- shakedown
- square
- square sth/sb away
- stage
- stage-manage
- stewardship
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orchestration
noun [ C or U ] uk/ˌɔː.kɪˈstreɪ.ʃən/us/ˌɔːr.kəˈstreɪ.ʃən/