arranges

Puts in order

Arranges is the third-person singular of arrange.

To arrange is to put things in order or position: She arranges the flowers in a vase, He arranges his schedule carefully.

Arranging also means to plan or organize: Who arranges the meetings?

In music, someone who arranges adapts a composition for different instruments or voices.

prepares

plans

Intended courses of action

books · reserves · orchestrates · manages · stages · provisions · fixes · lines up · sees to · prearranges

organizes

orders

Instructions to obey

systematizes · structures · sequences · groups · files · ranks · arrays · aligns · configures · prioritizes

adapts

transcribes

Converts to written form

transposes · instruments · reworks · charts · voices · adapts

positions

places

Areas or locations

situates · disposes · distributes · spaces · stations · spreads · deploys · poses · orients · locates

Categories
Opposites
order vs. disorder

arrangesdisarranges

Disturbs the order of

disorders · disorganizes · messes up · scrambles · jumbles

planning vs. spontaneity

arrangesimprovises

Creates spontaneously, unrehearsed

wings it · neglects · ignores · abandons · cancels

assembly vs. dispersal

arrangesscatters

Distributes irregularly about

disperses · strews · spreads · disturbs · disassembles

Phrases
Family

arrange, arranged, arrangement, arranging, rearrange, arrangements, prearranged, rearranged, rearrangement

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