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/ˈɔrgənˌaɪzd/ Listen

verb

Organize v. t. (past & past part. organized; pres. part. organizing)

1.

(Biol.) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; in this sense used chiefly in the past participle. "These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce."

2.

To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc. "This original and supreme will organizes the government."

3.

(Mus.) To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem. (R.)

adjective

organized adj.

1.

Same as arranged; as, an organized tour.

2.

Formed into an organization. Opposite of unorganized. (Narrower terms: corporate, incorporated)

3.

Well-conducted. Opposite of disorganized. Also See: systematic.

Synonyms: organized.

4.

Arranged according to a system or rule.

Synonyms: systematized.

5.

Being a member of or formed into a labor union; of workers, used especially in the phrase "organized labor". Opposite of nonunion.

Synonyms: unionized, union.

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Etymology of 'Organized'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy

... But it was against this remote ruin that all the military systems in religion were originally ranked and ruled. The creeds and the crusades, the hierarchies and the horrible persecutions were not organized, as is ignorantly said, for the suppression of reason. They were organized for the difficult defence of reason. Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve, ...

— Orthodoxy • G. K. Chesterton

... York Volunteers was organized in April, 1861, in the City of New York. Two of the companies were made up of men from outside the city. C was composed of men from Hoboken and Paterson, New Jersey, and G marched into the regimental headquarters fully organized from the town of ...

— The Junior Classics Volume 8 - Animal and Nature Stories • Selected and arranged by William Patten

... not in Calcutta, Bombay or Madras—not far from Patna has just written me that word has been brought from one of the Sontal villages concerning the depredations of a tiger from which the inhabitants have recently suffered, and that a grand hunt, elephant-back, has been organized through the combined contributions of the English and native elephant-owners. He presses me to come, and as an affair of this sort is by no means common—for it is no easy matter to get together and support a dozen elephants and the army of retainers considered necessary in a great ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876. • Various

... the Romans comes, as always, a little light, for they were a shrewd and mighty people, who liked their house set in order, and tabulated and recorded and organized, and have left traces of their orderliness on the face of the land, and the speech of the people, and the laws of the nations in three continents. They subdued Damnonia, and held it from their armed camp at Exeter, where Roman coins, pottery, brick, and ...

— Lynton and Lynmouth - A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland • John Presland

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