organizer

[ awr-guh-nahy-zer ]

noun

1. a person who organizes, especially one who forms and organizes a group.
2. a person whse job is to enlist employees into membership in a union.
3. a person who organizes or schedules work:

   You would get this job done sooner if you were a better organizer.

4. a multiple folder or, sometimes, a notebook in which correspondence, papers, etc., are sorted by subject, date, or otherwise, for systematic handling.
5. Embryology. any part of an embryo that stimulates the development and differentiation of another part.

organizer

/ ˈɔːɡəˌnaɪzə /

noun

1. a person who organizes or is capable of organizing
2. a container with a number of compartments for storage

   hanging organizers to keep your clothes smart

3. embryol any part of an embryo or any substance produced by it that induces specialization of undifferentiated cells

Word History and Origins

Origin of organizer¹

First recorded in 1840–50; organiz(e) ( def ) + -er ¹( def )

Example Sentences

If women at the party are into women and this doesn’t bother you, the party organizer, there’s no need to stop it.

From Ozy

Event schema markup is code that specifically points out to search engine facts relating to events, such as the location, schedule, organizer, and performers.

From Search Engine Watch

The primary organizers had developed their own voting platform, called PopVote, with both an iOS and Android app for it.

From Quartz

Jean-huy Tran, an activist who is part of the TRUST SD Coalition, a group against mass-surveillance technology in the city, was one of the primary organizers of that effort to flood the city with calls to slash the budget.

From Voice of San Diego

Victor Castro, one of the organizers, said within days of the first protest, he began to see online fliers for events with little to no information about who was behind it.

From Voice of San Diego

“She understands that she is part of this movement, and that she is helping to lead it,” said one organizer.

From The Daily Beast

“He is ‘an independent socialist,’” said one organizer supportive of Warren.

From The Daily Beast

As the bus gets ready to head out of the city, a young organizer scours between guitar cases inside the bus.

From The Daily Beast

It appears that Palin has now become a community organizer—just like President Obama was.

From The Daily Beast

“They can say my house is condemned and take it,” said Harris, 38, a community organizer.

From The Daily Beast

Alighting from Pyne's car at the door, they went up to the flat of the organizer of the opium party—Mr. Cyrus Kilfane.

From Project Gutenberg

He was both a political and moral reformer,--an organizer of new forces, a man of great executive ability, a judge and a prophet.

From Project Gutenberg

A red-faced Irishman walked out of a knot of workers and greeted the tall organizer.

From Project Gutenberg

The organizer smiled, his lips curling back over big front teeth; there was something disquieting and unsmiling in the look.

From Project Gutenberg

Certainly he was the first great statesman, hero, and organizer that looms up to view after the dissolution of the Roman Empire.

From Project Gutenberg

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