unorganizable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + organizable.
Adjective
[edit]unorganizable (comparative more unorganizable, superlative most unorganizable)
- That cannot be organized.
- 1911, William James, Memories and Studies[1]:
- But ideas and sentiments of alien kinds, or unorganizable kinds, were, if not rejected, yet accepted with indifference, and soon dropped away."
- 1922, Selig Perlman, A History of Trade Unionism in the United States[2]:
- Excluding employers, the salaried group, agricultural and clerical workers, persons engaged in personal or domestic service, and those below twenty years of age (unorganizable workers), the organizable total was 11,490,944.
- 2001 February 2, Harold Henderson, “City File”, in Chicago Reader[3]:
- A decade ago, most union leaders saw such immigrants as passive, frightened and unorganizable.