Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Organized beforehand; specifically, occurring or apprehended by virtue of antecedent organization.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of preorganize.
  • adjective organized in advance

Etymologies

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From pre- +‎ organized

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Examples

  • Reporters in Tripoli are banned from venturing outside the city except for preorganized and staged government events.

    In Libyan Capital, a Mixed Mood Sam Dagher 2011

  • Gadhafi's government has invited foreign journalists to Tripoli to report on events there but have largely prevented them from moving freely in the capital and taken them to events that are largely preorganized.

    Libya Cedes Control of Key City Sam Dagher 2011

  • "Self-organized" projects have become increasingly popular as social networking sites make it easy to advertise to your "friends" and savvy organizations make tools available online for those who want to lead an activity rather than join a preorganized project.

    Shirley Sagawa: Give Thanks All Year by Volunteering Shirley Sagawa 2010

  • "Self-organized" projects have become increasingly popular as social networking sites make it easy to advertise to your "friends" and savvy organizations make tools available online for those who want to lead an activity rather than join a preorganized project.

    Shirley Sagawa: Give Thanks All Year by Volunteering Shirley Sagawa 2010

  • "Self-organized" projects have become increasingly popular as social networking sites make it easy to advertise to your "friends" and savvy organizations make tools available online for those who want to lead an activity rather than join a preorganized project.

    Shirley Sagawa: Give Thanks All Year by Volunteering Shirley Sagawa 2010

  • "Self-organized" projects have become increasingly popular as social networking sites make it easy to advertise to your "friends" and savvy organizations make tools available online for those who want to lead an activity rather than join a preorganized project.

    Shirley Sagawa: Give Thanks All Year by Volunteering Shirley Sagawa 2010

  • "Self-organized" projects have become increasingly popular as social networking sites make it easy to advertise to your "friends" and savvy organizations make tools available online for those who want to lead an activity rather than join a preorganized project.

    Shirley Sagawa: Give Thanks All Year by Volunteering Shirley Sagawa 2010

  • While those body states come about through a complex network of interactions within the brain they rely on basic biological regulatory systems which he calls preorganized mechanisms that are about saving the body.

    Damasio on Bias 2006

  • Because steps are not preorganized into a staircase, and because so many wrong turns and dead ends lie in wait, an unseeing search would almost certainly fail.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • Because steps are not preorganized into a staircase, and because so many wrong turns and dead ends lie in wait, an unseeing search would almost certainly fail.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

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