Organising

Part of speech: verb, noun

Definitions

1. The act or process of arranging or coordinating elements into a structured and functional whole, the act of forming a group or system for a specific purpose, or the act of planning and implementing tasks to achieve a goal
2. The action of systematically putting things in order or establishing order among components, the process of founding or directing an entity such as a club or event, and the method of scheduling activities efficiently to produce desired outcomes
3. The process of structuring or assembling parts to create coherence, the activity of founding or managing an organized body or event, and the action of preparing and arranging plans or resources to accomplish objectives

Etymology: "Organising" is the present participle and gerund of "organise", so the real story belongs to its root verb. That verb came into English from Middle French "organiser", and behind it lies the Greek "organon", meaning an instrument or tool. The connection is physical: a tool is something that does work, and the body's organs were long pictured as tools the living creature used to perform its functions. English "organ" carries that image, and "organise" grew from the same stem, so to organise was originally to furnish something with the parts it needed to function as a whole. The sense of arranging parts in order developed from that idea of a working whole. A body is an arrangement of organs, each suited to its role, and an enterprise or a collection of papers can be understood the same way: pieces placed so that they work together. Over time the word moved away from its bodily origins and toward the everyday meaning of sorting, scheduling and coordinating people or things.

Synonyms: arranging, structuring, systematizing, coordinating, planning

Antonyms: disorganizing, disarranging, chaos, confusion, disorder