arrangement

make arrangements

To organize, plan, or prepare. Typically followed by "for (someone or something)" or "to (do something)." I will make arrangements for you two to meet this week. We're making arrangements to have the faulty equipment repaired next week. Please make arrangements for my sister. She'll be arriving in the morning.
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make the arrangements

1. To organize, plan, or prepare what is necessary (for or to do something). Our legal team has already made the arrangements, so everything should be ready for you when you arrive on Monday. It will take me a little bit of time to make the arrangements, but the new equipment should be ready sometime in the next week or two.
2. To organize everything that is necessary for a funeral. I'm so shaken from her death that I can't even think about making the arrangements right now. My brothers and sisters and I all made the arrangements together when our father finally passed away.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

make arrangements for someone

to plan accommodations for someone. John is coming for a visit next week. Please make arrangements for him at the hotel. I will make arrangements for everyone when I call the hotel.
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make arrangements to do something

to plan to do something; to facilitate the doing of something. Please make arrangements to have all this stuff hauled away. We will make arrangements to be there on time.
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make arrangements (with someone) (for something)

to make plans with someone for something. I will make arrangements with Fred for the loan. We can make arrangements for a car with the manager.
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make the arrangements

Euph. to arrange a funeral. A funeral services practitioner will be happy to help you make the arrangements. When my father died, I was the one who made the arrangements.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

make arrangements for

Plan or prepare for someone or something, as in Who is making all the arrangements for our sales meeting? This expression employs arrangements in the sense of "measures or preparations for a particular purpose," a usage dating from the late 1700s.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • make arrangements
  • make arrangements for
  • make arrangements to do
  • make the arrangements
  • put (one's) affairs in order
  • plan ahead
  • plan on
  • have strings attached
  • jungled
  • jungled up
References in periodicals archive
However, these facts do not demonstrate the absence of a reimbursement arrangement. By use of the word "arrangement" in lieu of a narrower word such as "contract" or "agreement," Congress evidenced its intent not to restrict the way in which the required relationship may be proved.
Lessor of truck driver employees avoids 50% limit on per diems
Such arrangements are similar to cancellation of a debt, which does not trigger a withholding obligation because of the lack of custody or control over money or property." The organization concluded that this treatment is also consistent with the tax treatment of CLAs in foreign jurisdictions.
Convergence of IP and tax law distinguish TEI's comments on cross licensing arrangements: institute also follows up on cost sharing
Likewise, the cardiology proposed arrangement standardization of devices and limitations on the use of vascular closure devices would constitute an inducement to reduce or limit the current medical practice at the hospital and trigger the CMP.
Gain sharing revisited
Mathematicians have long known that dimensions 8 and 24 contain exceptionally nice, symmetric arrangements of spheres--the [E.sub.8] lattice and the Leech lattice, proved that these are the densest-possible arrangements of spheres, no one has found a denser arrangement.
Oddballs: it's easier to pack spheres in some dimensions than in others
* Underwriters must take meticulous care to avoid unintended risks from the fronting arrangement.
Putting up a good front: insurers, captives and buyers must fulfill specific responsibilities if fronting arrangements are to survive
Mutually Exclusive Regimes--An SDLI arrangement is taxed under the economic benefit or loan regime.
Split-dollar: proposals would change rules for split-dollar life insurance. (Federal Tax)
* Insure your laboratory provider is aware of the laws and regulations that govern arrangements between labs and their customers.
SNFs and laboratories
* Surveying "likely candidates" made it possible to assess how much the myths deter CPAs that might be considering a flexible work arrangement.
Myths and Realities of Flexible Work Arrangements
In each employment arrangement, workers with higher levels of education tended to have higher rates of pension coverage.
Earnings and benefits of workers in alternative work arrangements
From the hospital's perspective, the leasing arrangement improves access to a vertical continuum of care and to transitional programs for its hospital in-patients.
Partnering with hospitals for subacute care
They proposed a job-sharing arrangement, each working three days a week, after their return from "care-of-newborn-child" leave.
Family affair
What are the advantages of a family-based child maintenance arrangement? A.
Child maintenance arrangements; YOUR VIEW
409A generally does not include a deferral arrangement for an individual when the contributions are excludible from Federal income tax pursuant to any bilateral income tax convention.
Deferred compensation for executives under sec. 409A
A plan includes any agreement, method or arrangement, even if it applies only to one individual.
Play by the rules: IRC section 409A imposes new requirements on nonqualified deferred compensation