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ARRANGED
arranged, staged
(adjective) deliberately arranged for effect; “one of those artfully staged photographs”
arranged
(adjective) planned in advance; “an arranged marriage”
arranged, ordered
(adjective) disposed or placed in a particular kind of order; “the carefully arranged chessmen”; “haphazardly arranged interlobular septa”; “comfortable chairs arranged around the fireplace”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
arranged
simple past tense and past participle of arrange
Adjective
arranged (not comparable)
(of a marriage) Having the match decided by someone other than the couple being married.
Anagrams
• Arnegard
Source: Wiktionary
ARRANGE
Ar*range", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arranged; p. pr. & vb. n. Arranging.] Etym: [OE. arayngen, OF. arengier, F. arranger, fr. a (L. ad) + OF. rengier, rangier, F. ranger. See Range, v. t.]
1. To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle. So [they] came to the market place, and there he arranged his men in the streets. Berners. [They] were beginning to arrange their hampers. Boswell. A mechanism previously arranged. Paley.
2. To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine; as, to arrange the preliminaries of an undertaking.
Syn.
– Adjust; adapt; range; dispose; classify.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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