Arrange

/əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To plan; to prepare in advance.
3. (music, transitive, intransitive) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.
4. (music, Japan) rearranged rendition of a song; arrangement

Example Sentences

& whan the frensshe men sawe thus the hors come, whyche was longyng to rychard, they were al affrayed and moeued, and came & opened the gate, and anone he entred in; and after that the yate was shette, they arenged them aboute the sayd hors, for compassyon of sorowe, wepyng pyetously.

The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].

to arrange to meet; to arrange for supper

It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.

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• arranges
• arranging
• arranged

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