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organized

adjective/ˈɔɹɡənaɪzd/

What It Means

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

Of a person, characterized by efficient organization.

Unionized.

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

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Organized in Context

“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 nympholepsies”

— 1852, Mary Edgewood Lazarus, Love Vs. Marriage: Part 1, page 292

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

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