Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

ar|ranged /əre I ndʒd/ ADJ If you say how things are arranged , you are talking about their position in relation to each other or to something else. □  The house itself is three stories high and arranged around a courtyard.

ar|ra nged ma r|riage (arranged marriages ) N‑COUNT In an arranged marriage , the parents choose the person who their son or daughter will marry.

ar|range|ment ◆◇◇ /əre I ndʒmənt/ (arrangements )

1 N‑COUNT [usu pl, N to-inf] Arrangements are plans and preparations which you make so that something will happen or be possible. □ [+ for ] The staff is working frantically on final arrangements for the summit. □  She phoned Ellen, but made no arrangements to see her. □  …travel arrangements.

2 N‑COUNT [oft by N ] An arrangement is an agreement that you make with someone to do something. □  The caves can be visited only by prior arrangement. □  Her class teacher made a special arrangement to discuss her progress at school once a month.

3 N‑COUNT An arrangement of things, for example flowers or furniture, is a group of them displayed in a particular way. □  The house was always decorated with imaginative flower arrangements.

4 N‑COUNT If someone makes an arrangement of a piece of music, they change it so that it is suitable for particular voices or instruments, or for a particular performance. □ [+ of ] …an arrangement of a well-known piece by Mozart. SYNONYMS arrangement NOUN

1

plan:We're making plans for a trip to Mexico.

preparation:Behind any successful event lay months of preparations.

2

agreement:It looks as though a compromise agreement has now been reached

settlement:They are not optimistic about a settlement of the eleven-year conflict.

deal:The two sides tried and failed to come to a deal.

ar|rang|er /əre I ndʒə ^r / (arrangers )

1 N‑COUNT An arranger is a musician who arranges music by other composers, either for particular instruments or voices, or for a particular performance.

2 N‑COUNT An arranger is a person who arranges things for other people. □  …a loan arranger.

ar|rant /æ rənt/ ADJ [ADJ n] Arrant is used to emphasize that something or someone is very bad in some way. [EMPHASIS ] □  That's arrant nonsense. □  …an arrant coward.

ar|ray /əre I / (arrays )

1 N‑COUNT [with sing or pl verb, usu sing] An array of different things or people is a large number or wide range of them. □ [+ of ] As the deadline approached she experienced a bewildering array of emotions.

2 N‑COUNT [usu sing] An array of objects is a collection of them that is displayed or arranged in a particular way. □  We visited the local markets and saw wonderful arrays of fruit and vegetables.

ar|rayed /əre I d/

1 ADJ [v-link ADJ ] If things are arrayed in a particular way, they are arranged or displayed in that way. [FORMAL ] □  Cartons of Chinese food were arrayed on a large oak table.

2 ADJ If something such as a military force is arrayed against someone, it is ready and able to be used against them. [FORMAL ]

ar|rears /ər I ə ^r z/

1 N‑PLURAL Arrears are amounts of money that you owe, especially regular payments that you should have made earlier. □  They have promised to pay the arrears over the next five years.

2 PHRASE If someone is in arrears with their payments, or has got into arrears , they have not paid the regular amounts of money that they should have paid. □  …the 300,000 households who are more than six months in arrears with their mortgages.