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Arrange vs Facilitate - What's the difference?

arrange | facilitate |

As verbs the difference between arrange and facilitate

is that arrange is to set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner while facilitate is to make easy or easier.

arrange

English

Verb

(arrang)
  • To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
  • To put in order, to organize.
  • To plan; to prepare in advance.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.}}
  • (label) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.
  • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

    Derived terms

    * arrangement

    facilitate

    English

    Verb

    (facilitat)
  • To make easy or easier.
  • To help bring about
  • To preside over (a meeting, a seminar)