0 to plan, prepare for, or organize something: --
[ + question word ] We haven't yet arranged when to meet.
[ + that ] I'd deliberately arranged that they should arrive at the same time.
[ + to infinitive ] They arranged to have dinner the following month.
I'm trying to arrange my work so that I can have a couple of days off next week.
1 to put a group of objects in a particular order: --
His books are neatly arranged in alphabetical order.
Who arranged these flowers so beautifully?
2 to make changes to a piece of music so that it can be played in a different way, for example by a particular instrument: --
3 to plan or make preparations for something or for something to happen: --
[ I ] Shelly arranged for the publication of her thesis.
[ + to infinitive ] My friends arranged to eat with me.
4 to put something in a particular order: --
Books should be arranged alphabetically by author.
5 to write the parts of a piece of music so that it can be played by a particular instrument or instruments --
The lower terraces and courts are arranged around the more intimate landscape spaces with south-facing terraced gardens.
Probably those inns served as intermediaries when litigants were arranging for appeals to higher courts.
Words were arranged in increasing order of difficulty.
Finally, in order to meet the generally accepted guidelines for clinical consultation,11 outside expertise would have to be arranged.
We arranged separate housing for the couple to establish some distance between them and the recipient's family to diminish the possibility of more coercion.
The lists were arranged according to district, block, and building.
In that year the method of registration changed from books to cards which were arranged alphabetically by the name of the head of the household.
The first step on the road was admittance as an apprentice, arranged through the network.
