organizer

noun

or·​ga·​niz·​er ˈȯr-gə-ˌnī-zər 

plural organizers

1

: a person or thing that organizes something: such as

a

: a person who arranges something (such as an event) especially by systematic planning and by coordinating the efforts of others

the organizers of the festival

Community organizers have scheduled other events around the city this weekend to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For example, on Sunday the Town Hall will host "Writers Resist," at which more than a dozen writers will read their own work and pieces from celebrated American rights activists.

—Jessica Lee

b

: something (such as a device or container) that is designed to keep objects or information in a particular arrangement or order

a closet organizer

The digital diary a.k.a the electronic organizer was popular in the '80s and '90s. It was a calculator, address book and notepad all-in-one.

—Rill Causey and Sam Reichman

We discovered that one of the firms still mailed tax organizers to clients in January. While they didn't really expect their clients to fill out the paper organizers, they knew the document remained an effective way of reminding clients to start getting organized well before April 15—and to keep the firm's brand top of mind.

—Kyle Walters

2

: a region of a developing embryo or a substance produced by such a region that is capable of inducing a specific type of development in undifferentiated tissue

called also inductor

Examples of organizer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

At each stop, around 90% of tickets were distributed to farmers, workers, and students and—partnering with Maya Penn, a 26-year-old organizer and the leader of the Dear Everything Youth Council—the production left some $20,000 for local groups working in the climate space. —Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2026

The 18th hole at Memorial Park does not include a water feature, so after the PGA Tour’s Texas Children’s Houston Open wrapped up on the same golf course at the end of March, Chevron organizers began digging, literally. —Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026

But only 38 percent of the 2026 event’s entries ran autonomously, organizers say; the rest were piloted remotely. —Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026

With just 50 days until the FIFA World Cup 2026 begins, event organizers are set to release tickets for all 104 matches of the international soccer tournament. —Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1786, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing organizer

• co-organizer
• nucleolus organizer

Rhymes for organizer

• advertiser
• analyser
• analyzer
• appetizer
• atomizer
• breathalyzer
• colonizer
• crystallizer
• digitizer
• equalizer
• fertilizer
• localizer

Medical Definition

organizer

noun

or·​ga·​niz·​er

variants also British organiser

-ˌnī-zər 

1

: one that organizes

2

: a region of a developing embryo (as the chordamesoderm of the dorsal lip of the vertebrate blastopore) or a substance produced by such a region that is capable of inducing a specific type of development in undifferentiated tissue

called also inductor