arrangement
an act of arranging; state of being arranged.
the manner or way in which things are arranged: a tactful arrangement of the seating at dinner.
a final settlement; adjustment by agreement: The arrangement with the rebels lasted only two weeks.
Usually arrangements. preparatory measures; plans; preparations: They made arrangements for an early departure.
something arranged in a particular way: a floral arrangement; the arrangement of chairs for the seminar.
Music.
the adaptation of a composition to voices or instruments, or to a new purpose.
a piece so adapted.
Idioms about arrangement
final arrangements, the planning or scheduling of funeral services and burial: Final arrangements are still pending.
Origin of arrangement
1Other words from arrangement
- re·ar·range·ment, noun
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How to use arrangement in a sentence
This arrangement with Rochester, which is also part of the International League, should feel very similar to that.
Nationals have a new Class AAA affiliate in Rochester Red Wings | Jesse Dougherty | November 19, 2020 | Washington PostThey are making their own arrangements with pharmaceutical companies instead.
That arrangement eventually allowed Smith to become a billionaire himself.
A dodgy deal helped make him a billionaire. It worked, until now. | Peter Whoriskey, Yeganeh Torbati, Keith L. Alexander | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostThe lack of any criminal complaint may suggest Individual X is already incarcerated and may have agreed to turn over the Bitcoin as part of a cooperation arrangement with authorities.
I was also able to handle my grief and be helpful to my family during the painful but necessary arrangements that had to be made before and after her departure.
And there was some significant rearrangement at the top of the list, and some movement at the bottom, too.
The poisonous property is lost in the general rearrangement which takes place during hydrolysis.
Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant: (Rhus Toxicodendron) | William Anderson SymeBlake found it necessary to make a kind of work-desk in his section, and accordingly had a thorough rearrangement.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonBut now a rearrangement of the circumstances, apart from the finger-print, began to throw a new light on the matter.
The Grell Mystery | Frank FroestThe culmination of this rearrangement of the political atoms of society was the War for Independence of 1776.
Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 | Wilcomb E. WashburnIn the granite it consists of various stages of change in form, attended by some chemical rearrangement.
British Dictionary definitions for arrangement
/ (əˈreɪndʒmənt) /
the act of arranging or being arranged
the form in which things are arranged: he altered the arrangement of furniture in the room
a thing composed of various ordered parts; the result of arranging: a flower arrangement
(often plural) a preparatory measure taken or plan made; preparation
an agreement or settlement; understanding
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
an adaptation (of a play, etc) for broadcasting
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