arrangement
Americannoun
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arrangements
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an act of arranging; state of being arranged.
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the manner or way in which things are arranged.
a tactful arrangement of the seating at dinner.
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a final settlement; adjustment by agreement.
The arrangement with the rebels lasted only two weeks.
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Usually arrangements. preparatory measures; plans; preparations.
They made arrangements for an early departure.
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something arranged in a particular way.
a floral arrangement; the arrangement of chairs for the seminar.
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Music.
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the adaptation of a composition to voices or instruments, or to a new purpose.
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a piece so adapted.
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idioms
noun
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the act of arranging or being arranged
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the form in which things are arranged
he altered the arrangement of furniture in the room
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a thing composed of various ordered parts; the result of arranging
a flower arrangement
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(often plural) a preparatory measure taken or plan made; preparation
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an agreement or settlement; understanding
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an adaptation of a piece of music for performance in a different way, esp on different instruments from those for which it was originally composed
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an adaptation (of a play, etc) for broadcasting
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Etymology
Origin of arrangement
From French, dating back to 1720–30; see origin at arrange, -ment
Explanation
When you organize things in an orderly way, the result is called an arrangement. If you admire your friend's arrangement of his living room furniture, you might go home and make a similar arrangement. Your brother might keep an arrangement of Lego creations on his desk, and you could put an arrangement of wildflowers in a vase in the middle of your kitchen table. Another kind of arrangement is one you make when you negotiate an agreement with another person: "We have an arrangement — she gives me a ride to school and I walk her dog in the afternoon." The Old French root, arengier, means "to set in a row."
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If a parent does not pay their ex-partner directly after setting up an arrangement with the CMS, the service can take money from wages, bank accounts or benefits, using its Collect and Pay service.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Hal, after two seemingly successful decades in the job, is unused to the company and suspicious of the arrangement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
They defended the status quo against various liberation movements and labor coalitions, fighting to keep everything as it had always been in service of the people who most benefited from the old arrangement.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
The findings suggest that some genetic mutations may cause disease not only by changing individual genetic instructions, but also by disturbing the physical arrangement of the genome itself.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
The next song that comes on is the orchestra arrangement of Beauty and the Beast, and it’s mainly piano and strings.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
Tehran signalled last week that it had agreed with Oman a route for ships to transit the strait and were finalising arrangements to jointly manage the waterway.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Such pyramid arrangements have since been known as “Ponzi schemes.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
She told the BBC that despite some recent improvements they continue to see "serious shortcomings in the arrangements for military police complaints, poor handling of allegations of coercive control and behaviour".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Astronomers are still working to understand why this swept-up gas forms such complicated arrangements of rings and shells, structures that are commonly seen in planetary nebulae.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
He makes arrangements with his clients, finishes his clocks in progress in record time, and secures a short-term flat rental in Dresden.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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