organizing

Pluralorganizings

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act or process of arranging something into an ordered or working whole.

   Like a stage crew setting every prop in place before the curtain rises.

   The organizing of such a large festival demands months of preparation.

   Years of patient organizing built the movement into a national force.

   Similarorganization, planning, arrangement

   Note

   Where the verbal form takes a direct object (organizing a festival), the noun needs of: the organizing of a festival. Mostly it is uncountable, a mass of effort, but it can also be counted, and the plural organizings names separate efforts. Because it behaves like an ordinary noun, adjectives replace adverbs: careful organizing, not carefully organizing.

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of organize.

   Volunteers are organizing relief supplies for the flooded town.

   He spent the weekend organizing his vast record collection.

   Note

   One spelling does two jobs. After a form of be, it is the verb in progress (they are organizing a protest). In noun positions, it is the gerund (organizing takes patience). It carries every meaning of organize, including the labor one, where it can stand without an object: workers organizing for better pay. It also carries the musical sense of singing in parts.

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