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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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"Organized" Quotes from Famous Books

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— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner

... soldiers made an immediate sally to the shore, in the lack of order usual in events of this nature. In consequence, the Chinese killed them all, not even one of them escaping. Therefore the rest of the Spaniards formed into one organized body, and showed some resistance to the enemy, now entering the city and firing it, the while uttering their shouts of victory. This resistance was characteristic of Spaniards upon finding themselves in such dangers; and it was so stubborn and courageous that it sufficed ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume VI, 1583-1588 • Emma Helen Blair

... trellises or walls. The individual fruits may be tied up or bagged. All this is very different from the raising of apples by means of tractors and other machinery, gangs of pruners and pickers, broadside extensive methods, with highly organized systems of handling and marketing, in all of which the money-measure is the chief consideration. It is for all these reasons that the growing of a few dwarf apple-trees may afford such intimate satisfaction to a careful man who prizes the result of ...

— The Apple-Tree - The Open Country Books--No. 1 • L. H. Bailey

... beliefs in the terms of the Osiris story.] Even at this early age, it was, of course, clearly stated that the king must be righteous, morally satisfactory in the eyes of the world and of the gods. The gods, as always, were on the side of the moral code, and especially on the side of the organized religion. It is perhaps significant that the chief sins of the kings of the Fourth dynasty, so execrated by the Egyptian priests in the Ptolemaic period, were sins against the great gods. The other charges are ...

— The Egyptian Conception of Immortality • George Andrew Reisner

... the nurses ought to have some military drill. War nurses must be organized, and there was no better method of effecting this orderly ...

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