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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

... which this marshy region lies. But since it has been ascertained that malaria is produced in soils of the most varied chemical composition, the persistent identity of this product has become chemically inexplicable; while it is however readily conceivable, if one admits that malaria is an organized ferment which easily finds the necessary conditions for its life and multiplication in the most varied soils, as is the case with millions of other organisms vastly superior to the rudimentary vegetables which constitute ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 • Various

... subsistence, was an obligation which the God of nature had imposed upon them, and that it would be a sin in them not to submit to it; whereas nothing can be more plain than that the God of nature intends the earth for man, and that consequently society ought to be so organized that in each generation every man can enjoy something at least like his fair share of the products of it, in proportion to the degree of industry or skill which he brings to bear upon the ...

— Richard II - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... helping the women plough in springtime, and reap the harvest in the autumn. Perhaps we have regarded the scene as a mere pastoral episode in a happy leave from the battle front, instead of realizing that it is a snapshot illustrating a well organized plan of securing labor. The soldiers are given a furlough and are sent where the agricultural need is pressing. But the American soldier will not be able to lend his skill in giving the home fields a rich seed time and harvest. The two needs, the field for the touch of the human ...

— Mobilizing Woman-Power • Harriot Stanton Blatch

... perform staff duties. At this time General Dearborn was in command of the American forces at Fort Niagara, consisting of about five thousand men. In May, Colonel Scott, with his regiment, joined General Dearborn, and Scott became chief of staff. He first organized the service among all the staff departments, several of which were entirely new, and others disused in the United States since the Revolutionary War. On the British side of the Niagara was Fort George, situated on a peninsula and occupied by British troops. Just previous ...

— General Scott • General Marcus J. Wright

... chantants, and less reputable establishments flourished under the liberal patronage of the Russian officers, who, out of sheer ennui, ruined their pockets and constitutions with drunken orgies, night and day. There was no order of any kind, no organized police-force, and robberies and assassinations took place almost nightly. Small-pox was raging in the place when Gerome left it; also a loathsome disease called the "Bouton d'alep "—a painful boil which, oddly enough, always ...

— A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan • Harry De Windt

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