4 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

organized

adjective

1: formed into a structured or coherent whole; "organized religion"; "organized crime"; "an organized tour" [ant: {unorganized}]

2: methodical and efficient in arrangement or function; "how well organized she is"; "his life was almost too organized" [ant: {disorganized}]

3: being a member of or formed into a labor union; "organized labor"; "unionized workers"; "a unionized shop" [syn: {organised}, {unionized}, {unionised}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

organized \organized\ adjective

1. same as {arranged}; as, an organized tour. [WordNet 1.5]

2. formed into an organization. Opposite of {unorganized}. [Narrower terms: {corporate, incorporated}] [WordNet 1.5]

3. well-conducted. Opposite of {disorganized}. Also See: {systematic}.

Syn: organized. [WordNet 1.5]

4. arranged according to a system or rule.

Syn: systematized. [WordNet 1.5]

5. being a member of or formed into a labor union; -- of workers, used especially in the phrase [db]organized labor||. Opposite of {nonunion}.

Syn: unionized, union. [WordNet 1.5]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Organize \Or"gan*ize\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Organized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Organizing}.] [Cf. F. organiser, Gr. ?. See {Organ}.]

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. --Ray.

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. --Cranch.

3. (Mus.) To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem. [R.] --Busby.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

110 Moby Thesaurus words for "organized": afflicted, aligned, animate, arranged, arrayed, assorted, bent, biological, biotic, blueprinted, boiled, bombed, boozy, calculated, canned, categorized, charted, classified, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, composed, constituted, contrived, crocked, crocko, designed, devised, disguised, disposed, drunk, elevated, figured, fixed, fried, fuddled, graded, grouped, half-seas over, harmonized, high, illuminated, in the works, inebriated, lit, lit up, living, loaded, lubricated, lushy, marshaled, methodized, muddled, muzzy, normalized, oiled, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis, ordered, orderly, organic, physiological, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, pixilated, placed, planned, plastered, plotted, polluted, potted, projected, raddled, ranged, ranked, rationalized, regularized, regulated, routinized, scheduled, schematized, set, shaped, shellacked, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaked, sorted, soused, squiffy, standardized, stewed, stinko, strategetic, strategic, sur le tapis, swacked, synchronized, systematized, tactical, tanked, tight, vital, worked out, zoetic

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