Organize

ˈɔːrɡənaɪz

verb

arrange systematically; give a definite structure to

The word 'organize' comes from the Latin word 'organizare', meaning to arrange or dispose. Being organized can help improve efficiency and productivity in various aspects of life.

“Come, now,” Noël continued, “it’s all arranged; there’s nothing to do but organize under the Paladin’s banner and go forth and rescue France.

Mark Twain

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

“McCabe would organize the unemployed, which was practically everybody, into great Bokonon hunts.

Kurt Vonnegut

Cat's Cradle

The European system was already founded; all that remained was to organize it.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

- - - It was a small-town, once-weekly West Virginia newspaper called the Durbin Call-Clarion, put out by a retired lawyer named James D. Hogliss, and its circulation figures had always been good because Hogliss had been a fiery defender of the miners' right to organize in the late 1940s and m the 1950s, and because his anti-establishment editorials were always filled with hellfire and brimstone missiles aimed at the government hacks at every level, from town to federal.

King, Stephen

The Stand

“Keeping an eye on you, of course.”“I’m still being followed?” asked Harry angrily.“Yeah, you are,” said Sirius, “and just as well, isn’t it, if the first thing you’re going to do on your weekend off is organize an illegal defense group.”But he looked neither angry nor worried; on the contrary, he was looking at Harry with distinct pride.“Why was Dung hiding from us?” asked Ron, sounding disappointed.

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Heer Pruyn and his wife quietly organize a display of femininity for Philippe de Marsillac.

Gregory Maguire

Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister

Now let us organize.

Bram Stoker

Dracula

The people were tremendously stirred up over its encroachments, but nobody had any remedy to suggest; it was the task of Socialists to teach and organize them, and prepare them for the time when they were to seize the huge machine called the Beef Trust, and use it to produce food for human beings and not to heap up fortunes for a band of pirates.—It was long after midnight when Jurgis lay down upon the floor of Ostrinski’s kitchen; and yet it was an hour before he could get to sleep, for the glory of that joyful vision of the people of Packingtown marching in and taking possession of the Union Stockyards!

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

‘Why,’ said he, ‘does not the emperor, who has devised so many clever and efficient modes of improving the art of war, organize a regiment of lawyers, judges and legal practitioners, sending them in the hottest fire the enemy could maintain, and using them to save better men?’ You see, my dear, that for picturesque expression and generosity of spirit there is not much to choose between the language of either party.

Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

You do not know how to organize a day of enjoyment in this age,” he exclaimed.

Victor Hugo

Les Misérables

Back home, District 12 is probably in chaos as they try and organize the homecoming celebrations for Peeta and me, given that the last one was close to thirty years ago.

Suzanne Collins

Hunger Games 1 - The Hunger Games

He would organize these facts and sell them to people.

Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash

I—Why couldn’t I organize a bank of my own some day?

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness—they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

Frank Herbert

Children of Dune

Mankind as a whole has always striven to organize a universal state.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

There’s a little something I need to organize first.

Gaiman, Neil

Neverwhere

‘And I didn’t organize anything,’ Milo answered indignantly, drawing great agitated sniffs of air in through his hissing, pale, twitching nose.

Heller, Joseph

Catch-22