arranging

Pluralarrangings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of arrange.

   He is arranging the meeting for early next Tuesday.

   Arranging the books by color took her the whole afternoon.

   Note

   One spelling does two grammatical jobs. After a form of be it is the progressive verb (she is arranging the chairs). In a noun position it is the gerund, which still takes a direct object (arranging the chairs took an hour). It carries every meaning of arrange, including the musician's: arranging a song for strings. It can also stand without an object when it means planning ahead.

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act or process of putting things into a planned order or position.

   The arranging of the exhibits required weeks of careful planning.

   She studied the art of flower arranging for several years.

   Similararrangement, organization, ordering, placement

   Note

   A true noun that counts acts rather than results. Francis Hopkinson Smith's Peter (1908) lists household chores as "dustings and arrangings of furniture," pairing it with another -ing plural. The plural is the mark of the noun. So is the of before its object (the arranging of flowers), where the gerund takes its object directly.

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