ARRANGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arranger mean? 

• ARRANGER (noun)
  The noun ARRANGER has 2 senses:

1. a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise

2. a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance

  Familiarity information: ARRANGER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARRANGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who brings order and organization to an enterprise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

arranger; organiser; organizer

Context example:

she was the organizer of the meeting

Hypernyms ("arranger" is a kind of...):

thinker (someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arranger"):

co-ordinator; coordinator (someone whose task is to see that work goes harmoniously)

orderer; systematiser; systematist; systematizer; systemiser; systemizer (an organizer who puts things in order)

Derivation:

arrange (make arrangements for)

arrange (put into a proper or systematic order)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

adapter; arranger; transcriber

Hypernyms ("arranger" is a kind of...):

musician (artist who composes or conducts music as a profession)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arranger"):

orchestrator (an arranger who writes for orchestras)

Derivation:

arrange (adapt for performance in a different way)

 Context examples 

Louisa seemed the principal arranger of the plan; and, as she went a little way with them, down the hill, still talking to Henrietta, Mary took the opportunity of looking scornfully around her, and saying to Captain Wentworth—It is very unpleasant, having such connexions!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)