organizer
Pluralorganizers
UK spellingorganiser
- 1A person who arranges the details of a public event, from booking the venue to coordinating the schedule.
The organizer of the marathon coordinated thousands of volunteers along the route.
Conference organizers booked the venue and lined up speakers a full year in advance.
Similarcoordinator, planner
- 2
- 3A box or case used for storing and sorting gadgets, trinkets, and other small odds and ends.
A drawer organizer kept her sewing supplies neatly separated.
He bought an organizer to hold all the loose cables behind his desk.
Note
The storage sense usually comes with a noun in front that says where the box lives or what it holds: a desk organizer, a makeup organizer, a drawer organizer. Those compounds are written open. Without one, organizer box makes the object clear. Otherwise the word could point to a person or a diary.
- 4A hand-held microcomputer that performs specific tasks, serving as an electronic diary, alarm clock, memo recorder, or portable database.
The salesman synced his organizer with the office database each evening.
She tapped a quick reminder into her organizer before the conference call.
SimilarPDA
Note
A pocket device from the years before the smartphone. It gathered calendar, contacts, memos and a small database into one machine. In speech it behaves just like the paper notebook (you add a meeting to your organizer either way), so when the difference matters, context or the word electronic has to make it clear.
Less common meaning
- 5A group of cells that, together with the evocator, directs cell differentiation in the developing embryo; also called the inductor.
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Origin
Formed from the verb "organize" combined with the suffix "-er".