arrangement

Definition

  • noun: the way that things or people are organized for a particular purpose or activity
  • noun: the state of being 'arranged'
  • usually plural
  • synonyms: preparation, settlement, transcription

Examples

  • “What were your sleeping 'arrangements'?” “I slept on the bed while he slept on the floor.”

  • Having my brother and his wife living nearby was an ideal 'arrangement' for our family.

  • The company made an 'arrangement with' the college to supply all of its computers.

Movie quotes

  • (..) And when they arrived home I found them with the letters that you/they had sent that summer. And they had been returned to the addressee. Chris had made an arrangement in the mail so that they retained them up to August ro, and this way to win some time. - Do you know something about this? (..)
    2007 Into the Wild