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organized, ppl. a.|ˈɔːgənaɪzd|
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1. Furnished with organs; composed of parts connected and co-ordinated for vital functions or processes; that is, or has been, endowed with physical life, as an animal or plant body, or any part of one; living; organic.
1598Florio, Organizzato, well proportioned, organised. 1647H. More Poems 86 Here dare I not define't, th' Entelechie Of organized bodies. 1665–6Phil. Trans. I. 200 The Body of the Chick seems but a little Organized Gelly. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady i. x. §4 (1734) 94 There may be Animalcula or Organised living Bodies of all Sizes. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xxiii. (1819) 373 Plants or animals, i.e. organized bodies, with parts bearing strict and evident relation to one another and to the utility of the whole. 1874Roscoe Elem. Chem. xxvii. 290 Such an organized structure is seen in the simple cell, the germ of living organisms.
2. a. gen. Formed into a whole with interdependent parts; co-ordinated so as to form a system or orderly structure; systematically arranged.
1817Wynn in Parl. Debates 357 Until it was necessary to meet the organized rebels in the field of battle. 1874Morley Compromise (1886) 40 All other organised priest-hoods..move within formularies even more inelastic.
b. Acquired deviously, illicitly, or cleverly. (Cf. organize v. 4.) slang.
1957H. Roosenburg Walls came tumbling Down v. 127 They had moved in..with a few organized mules and removed all the stores.
3. Made like an organ, or like the sound of an organ.
1603Florio Montaigne i. xx, Tunable and organized ones. 1819Pantologia, Organized Piano-forte, an instrument of modern invention, consisting of an organ and piano-forte, so conjoined that the same set of keys serve for both. 1889A. J. Hipkins in Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 795 Two claviorgans or organized clavecins.
4. Of or pertaining to a coordinated criminal organization directing operations on a large or widespread scale, esp. in phr. organized crime.
1929J. Landesco Organized Crime in Chicago ii. 25 Organized crime is not, as many think, a recent phenomenon in Chicago. Ibid. ix. 205 Newspaper writers,..interested in establishing the national and international ramifications of organized criminals. 1931F. D. Pasley Muscling In iii. 94 Next to beer and booze, organized prostitution yielded the heaviest profits. 1941H. Asbury Underworld of Chicago ix. 299 During the last few months of Mayor Harrison's final term Chicago was probably as free from organized vice as at any time in its history. 1952Turkus & Feder Murder, Inc. i. 9 In all the history of crime, there has never been an example of organized lawlessness to equal the Syndicate. 1973Black Panther 5 May 2/2 It is widely known that Inman is himself a kingpin in the city's organized crime and racket rings, as is Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell. 1975Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 June 1/9 He was named in police evidence before the Quebec organized crime inquiry as one of the four top lieutenants of the Godfather of organized crime in Montreal.
5. Special combs.: organized games, athletics or sports as organized in a school, college, etc.; organized labour, workers affiliated by membership in trade or labour unions.
1933D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xviii. 304 In Brotherhood's régime of bread and circuses, organised games naturally played a large part. 1944L. P. Hartley Shrimp & Anemone i. 16 The world of day-schools and organized games. 1974Times 5 Jan. 10/3 At modern Oxbridge there has been a decline in the participation by undergraduates in organized games.
1885in C. Evans Hist. United Mine Workers of Amer. (1918) I. 131 To organized labor..and to the generous and sympathetic public..we return our sincere and heartfelt thanks. 1924L. Wolman Growth of Amer. Trade Unions 82 The number of wage earners..would not be considered by some a thoroughly fair base for measuring the achievement in size of an organized labor movement. 1926Brit. Worker 10 May 2/4 The fight to maintain the workers' standard of living will be won by the united forces of organised labour. 1948Time 15 Mar. 27/2 He thought of himself as the leader of all the people, not just of organized labor. 1975Times 7 Jan. 12/8 The rise of both organized labour and high management around the turn of the century.
Add:[2.] c. transf. Of a person: having one's affairs in order; ready, prepared; freq. in phr. to get (oneself) organized. Hence, efficient, adept.
1946C. Fry Phoenix too Frequent (1949) 3 He was certain to have become the most well-organized provost The town has known. 1948Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 134 Organized, get, pull yourself together, show some efficiency. To get organized, to sort out one's ideas or possessions. (Army). 1976‘B. Shelby’ Great Pebble Affair 30 Officially, I had been renting my apartment for three months before I even saw it. That goes to show you how organized Donnely was. 1981T. Morrison Tar Baby vi. 191 Let the laundry stay there and get yourself organized. |