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# organise

«organise» in Mova's school dictionary: **to plan and arrange it: organise a party, a trip or a game** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (organise, organises, organised, organising; US organize)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To organise something is to plan and arrange it: organise a party, a trip or a game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/organise/#m1)

2) To organise things is to put them in order: organise your pencil case. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/organise/#m2)

3) To organise people is to get them to work together for a goal, such as a club or a protest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/organise/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school: organise your work, your time, a class event or a fundraiser. In everyday life: organise a birthday party. In maths and science: organise data in a table or chart.

### examples

- We organised a cake sale for charity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/organise/#x1)
- Organise your books by size. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/organise/#x2)
- Mum organised a surprise party for Dad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/organise/#x3)
- Organise your results in a table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/organise/#x4)
- The class organised a litter pick in the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/organise/#x5)
- She is good at organising her time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/organise/#x6)
- Who is organising the school trip? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/organise/#x7)

### note

UK -ise, US -ize; both correct. Noun: organisation (a group, or the act of organising); adjective: organised (tidy and good at planning). Opposite: disorganised.

### In the corpora

- [In non-fiction, headings, subheadings and signposts such as "Firstly, secondly, finally" organise the text.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/14/)
- [A non-chronological report organises facts by topic, not by time, usually in the present tense with headings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade/8/)
- [Mia organised a building competition with three themes and a fair rule: nobody judges their own build.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/20/)
- [The Persian Empire was well organised and fairly tolerant for its time, not the monster army shown in the film 300.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/18/)
- [Christians belong to different families of churches called denominations; they share the same core beliefs but have different traditions and ways of organising.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/28-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «organise» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/organise/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.