Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun arrangement
6 senses of arrangement
Sense 1
agreement, arrangement -- (the thing arranged or agreed to; "they made arrangements to meet in Chicago")
=> planning, preparation, provision -- (the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening; "his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties")
Sense 2
arrangement -- (an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging; "a flower arrangement")
=> group, grouping -- (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)
Sense 3
arrangement, organization, organisation, system -- (an organized structure for arranging or classifying; "he changed the arrangement of the topics"; "the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original"; "he tried to understand their system of classification")
=> structure -- (the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations; "his lectures have no structure")
Sense 4
placement, arrangement -- (the spatial property of the way in which something is placed; "the arrangement of the furniture"; "the placement of the chairs")
=> position, spatial relation -- (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated; "the position of the hands on the clock"; "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage")
Sense 5
musical arrangement, arrangement -- (a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments)
=> musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music -- (a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements")
Sense 6
arrangement, arranging, transcription -- (the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music)
=> composing, composition -- (musical creation)