arrange
verb
uk
/əˈreɪndʒ/ us
/əˈreɪndʒ/arrange verb (PLAN)
B1 [ I or T ]
arrange something for something The meeting has been arranged for Wednesday.
[ + to infinitive ] They arranged to have dinner the following month.
[ + that ] I'd deliberately arranged that they should arrive at the same time.
[ + question word ] We haven't yet arranged when to meet.
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- advertent
- advisably
- advisedly
- allow
- conscious
- cue
- game fixing
- game something out phrasal verb
- half expect someone/something to do something
- hatch
- have something in mind idiom
- have something up your sleeve idiom
- muster
- programmatically
- proposed
- provide
- provide against something phrasal verb
- provide for someone phrasal verb
arrange verb (PUT IN POSITION)
B2 [ T ]
Who arranged these flowers so beautifully?
His books are neatly arranged in alphabetical order.
- arrangeThe books are arranged in alphabetical order.
- orderThe names are ordered alphabetically.
- sortTen million pieces of mail are sorted every day.
- organizeHe liked to organize his herbs and spices alphabetically in the cabinet.
- lay outHe laid the playing cards out in a precise circle.
- set outShe was setting out the usual platter of cheese sandwiches.
- I'll have to do some thinking about how best to arrange the books.
- The desks were arranged in rows of ten.
- I've arranged the pictures of the animals alphabetically from aardvark to zebra.
- I've arranged the books alphabetically so don't muddle them up.
- We arranged the chairs in a semicircle.
- alphabetize
- anti-hierarchical
- arrangement
- arranger
- binomen
- microcosmic
- microcosmically
- microlabel
- miscatalogue
- misclassification
- set out phrasal verb
- set something up phrasal verb
- shake someone down phrasal verb
- short-list
- shortlist
- uncodified
- ungrouped
- unsorted
- unstratified
- unstructured
arrange verb (MUSIC)
[ T ]
to make changes to a piece of music so that it can be played in a different way, for example by a particular instrument: