Arranged vs Brought - What's the difference?
arranged | brought |
(arrange)
To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 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.
(bring)
As verbs the difference between arranged and brought
is that arranged is (arrange) while brought is (bring).arranged
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(head)arrange
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(arrang)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, […].}}
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeDerived terms
* arrangementbrought
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(head)Usage notes
It is common to hear native English speakers (particularly in Australia, New Zealand and the UK) using "brought " when meaning "bought" (and vice versa) despite the fact that the two words mean different thingsSometimes this mistake makes its way into print[http://thehoopla.com.au/relinquished/.