Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Incapable of becoming organized.

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  • adjective That cannot be organized.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ organizable

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Examples

  • Despite the early devotion of women — despite the fact that women were often baited, beaten, and arrested on picket lines — the ILGWU insisted that women, destined for marriage, were unorganizable.

    Labor Movement in the United States. 2009

  • They entail that which is irreducibly unorganizable, irreducibly lawless, and is indeed ultimately inaccessible or inconceivable otherwise, including as (absolutely) inaccessible or inconceivable, both of which are of course merely conceptions, as Hegel realized.

    Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001

  • According to this concept, certain collectivities or multiplicities may, in certain circumstances, be subject to organization, while individual elements comprising such multiplicities are, in general, unorganizable or lawless.

    Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001

  • In bringing too many children into the world, in adding to the total of misery, in intensifying the evils of overcrowding, the proletariat itself increases the burden of organized labor; even of the Socialist and Syndicalist organizations themselves with a surplus of the docilely inefficient, with those great uneducable and unorganizable masses.

    The Pivot of Civilization Margaret Sanger 1924

  • The child-laborer of one or two decades ago has become the shifting laborer of to-day, stunted, underfed, illiterate, unskilled, unorganized and unorganizable.

    The Pivot of Civilization Margaret Sanger 1924

  • "His legacy is effective organizing and he went after those who were traditionally viewed as unorganizable, like home health care workers and janitors," Shaiken said.

    Long Island Press Associated Press 2010

  • "His legacy is effective organizing and he went after those who were traditionally viewed as unorganizable, like home health care workers and janitors," Shaiken said.

    daytondailynews.com - News SAM HANANEL 2010

  • There go the lawyers and their hapless clients in a dust cloud of the ten billion codes, rules and regulations that were produced to organize and control an increasingly intricate, unorganizable and uncontrollable society.

    unknown title 2009

  • There go the lawyers and their hapless clients in a dust cloud of the ten billion codes, rules and regulations that were produced to organize and control an increasingly intricate, unorganizable and uncontrollable society.

    How to Save the World 2009

  • There go the lawyers and their hapless clients in a dust cloud of the ten billion codes, rules and regulations that were produced to organize and control an increasingly intricate, unorganizable and uncontrollable society.

    unknown title 2009

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