ar|range ◆◇◇ /əre I ndʒ/ (arranges , arranging , arranged )
1 VERB If you arrange an event or meeting, you make plans for it to happen. □ [V n] She arranged an appointment for Friday afternoon at four-fifteen.
2 VERB If you arrange with someone to do something, you make plans with them to do it. □ [V to-inf] I've arranged to see him on Friday morning. □ [be V -ed that] It was arranged that the party would gather for lunch in the Royal Garden Hotel. □ [V + for ] He had arranged for the boxes to be stored until they could be collected. [Also V that]
3 VERB If you arrange something for someone, you make it possible for them to have it or to do it. □ [V + for ] I will arrange for someone to take you round. □ [V + for ] The hotel manager will arrange for a baby-sitter. □ [V n] I've arranged your hotels for you.
4 VERB If you arrange things somewhere, you place them in a particular position, usually in order to make them look attractive or tidy. □ [V n] When she has a little spare time she enjoys arranging dried flowers.
5 VERB [usu passive] If a piece of music is arranged by someone, it is changed or adapted so that it is suitable for particular instruments or voices, or for a particular performance. SYNONYMS arrange VERB 1
plan: I had been planning a trip to the West Coast.
prepare: The Party leadership is preparing for the next election.
organize: In the end, we all decided to organize a concert for Easter.
devise: We devised a scheme to help him.
ar|ranged /əre I ndʒd/ ADJ If you say how things are arranged , you are talking about their position in relation to each other or to something else. □ The house itself is three stories high and arranged around a courtyard.
ar|ra nged ma r|riage (arranged marriages ) N‑COUNT In an arranged marriage , the parents choose the person who their son or daughter will marry.
ar|range|ment ◆◇◇ /əre I ndʒmənt/ (arrangements )
1 N‑COUNT [usu pl, N to-inf] Arrangements are plans and preparations which you make so that something will happen or be possible. □ [+ for ] The staff is working frantically on final arrangements for the summit. □ She phoned Ellen, but made no arrangements to see her. □ …travel arrangements.
2 N‑COUNT [oft by N ] An arrangement is an agreement that you make with someone to do something. □ The caves can be visited only by prior arrangement. □ Her class teacher made a special arrangement to discuss her progress at school once a month.
3 N‑COUNT An arrangement of things, for example flowers or furniture, is a group of them displayed in a particular way. □ The house was always decorated with imaginative flower arrangements.
4 N‑COUNT If someone makes an arrangement of a piece of music, they change it so that it is suitable for particular voices or instruments, or for a particular performance. □ [+ of ] …an arrangement of a well-known piece by Mozart. SYNONYMS arrangement NOUN
1
plan: We're making plans for a trip to Mexico.
preparation: Behind any successful event lay months of preparations.
2
agreement: It looks as though a compromise agreement has now been reached
settlement: They are not optimistic about a settlement of the eleven-year conflict.
deaclass="underline" The two sides tried and failed to come to a deal.
ar|rang|er /əre I ndʒə r / (arrangers )
1 N‑COUNT An arranger is a musician who arranges music by other composers, either for particular instruments or voices, or for a particular performance.
2 N‑COUNT An arranger is a person who arranges things for other people. □ …a loan arranger.
ar|rant /æ rənt/ ADJ [ADJ n] Arrant is used to emphasize that something or someone is very bad in some way. [EMPHASIS ] □ That's arrant nonsense. □ …an arrant coward.
ar|ray /əre I / (arrays )
1 N‑COUNT [with sing or pl verb, usu sing] An array of different things or people is a large number or wide range of them. □ [+ of ] As the deadline approached she experienced a bewildering array of emotions.
2 N‑COUNT [usu sing] An array of objects is a collection of them that is displayed or arranged in a particular way. □ We visited the local markets and saw wonderful arrays of fruit and vegetables.
ar|rayed /əre I d/
1 ADJ [v-link ADJ ] If things are arrayed in a particular way, they are arranged or displayed in that way. [FORMAL ] □ Cartons of Chinese food were arrayed on a large oak table.
2 ADJ If something such as a military force is arrayed against someone, it is ready and able to be used against them. [FORMAL ]
ar|rears /ər I ə r z/
1 N‑PLURAL Arrears are amounts of money that you owe, especially regular payments that you should have made earlier. □ They have promised to pay the arrears over the next five years.
2 PHRASE If someone is in arrears with their payments, or has got into arrears , they have not paid the regular amounts of money that they should have paid. □ …the 300,000 households who are more than six months in arrears with their mortgages.