Other forms: arrangements
An arrangement is something agreed about how things will be done. A private arrangement, make arrangements, the usual arrangement.
It is deliberately vaguer than a contract and often a polite way of not saying what was agreed. In music an arrangement is an existing piece rewritten for different instruments, which is a real craft. A flower arrangement is a third sense.
1nounarrangementSomething agreed about how things will be done.
“We have an arrangement: I cook during the week and he cooks at weekends.”
2nounmusicA piece of music rewritten for other instruments.
“The choir sang a new arrangement of an old folk song, with guitar instead of piano.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
arrangement is an agreement, or an ordering.
French arrangement comes from arranger, to put in order, from a plus rang, a rank or row.
French
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English, today
arrangement
Borrowed from French arrangement. From French arrangement. Morphologically arrange + ment.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA