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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To put into a specific order or relation; dispose: arrange shoes in a neat row.
  2. v. To plan or prepare for: arrange a picnic.
  3. v. To bring about an agreement concerning; settle: "It has been arranged for him by his family to marry a girl of his own class” ( Edmund Wilson).
  4. v. Music To reset (a composition) for other instruments or voices or as another style of performance.
  5. v. To come to an agreement.
  6. v. To make preparations; plan: arrange for a big wedding.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To put in proper order; dispose or set out conformably to a plan or purpose; give a certain collocation to; marshal: as, to arrange troops for battle.
  2. To adjust; settle; come to an agreement or understanding regarding: as, to arrange the terms of a bargain.
  3. In music, to adapt or alter so as to fit for performance by other voices or instruments than those designed by the composer: as, to arrange an opera for the piano. Synonyms To array, classify, group, dispose, sort.
  4. To fix upon, determine, agree upon, draw up; to devise, organize, construct, concoct.
  5. To make preparations; carry out beforehand such negotiations or make such disposition in regard to some matter as may be necessary: as, to arrange about a passport, or for supplies; arrange with a publisher.
  6. To come to an agreement or understanding in regard to something; make a settlement.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
  2. v. To put in order, to organize.
  3. v. music To prepare and adapt an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose.
  2. v. To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. adapt for performance in a different way
  2. v. put into a proper or systematic order
  3. v. plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
  4. v. arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
  5. v. arrange attractively
  6. v. set (printed matter) into a specific format
  7. v. make arrangements for

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English arengen, arrangen ("to draw up a battle line") from Old French arengier, arrangier ("to put in a line, put in a row") from reng, rang, ranc ("line, row, rank"), from Frankish hring ("ring"), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“something bent or curved”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”). Akin to Old High German (h)ring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring, hrincg ("ring"), Old Norse hringr ("ring, circle, queue, sword; ship"). More at ring (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English arengen, from Old French arengier : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + rengier, to put in a line (from reng, line. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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