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organized

adj — 4 senses

organized

adj

US /ˈɔɹɡənaɪzd/ · UK /ˈɔːɡənaɪzd/

1

Of things or settings, having been organized; in good order.

  • Your desk is so organized!
2

Of a person, characterized by efficient organization.

  • Your desk is so neat and tidy — I've never met someone so organized before!
3

Unionized.

  • If young persons of both sexes were brought together in the honest practical relations of organized labor, we should see no more of these fond nympholepsies1852, Mary Edgewood Lazarus, Love Vs. Marriage: Part 1, page 292:
Derived terms
disorganized, hyperorganized, inorganized, malorganized, nonorganized, organized baseball, organizedly, organized religion, preorganized, semiorganized, superorganized, underorganized, unorganized, well-organized

organized

adj

Etymology From organ (“musical instrument”) + -ize, calque of German organisierte/organisirte.

1

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Rare Of a musical instrument, having keys (like an organ); keyed.

  • The original concert advertisement including his name mentions “An Aria with accompaniment of organized trumpet, sung by Mlle. Gassmann, the words of which are by Herr Lieutenant [Giovanni de] v. Gamerra, poet of the Imperial Royal Court Theatre, the music by Herr Franz Xaver Süssmayer [sic], Kapellmeister of the I.R. Court Theatre.”2015, Bryan Proksch, “Anton Weidinger’s Repertoire for the Keyed trumpet”, in Historic Brass Society Journal, volume 27, →DOI, page 15:

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