unorganizable

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ organizable.

Adjective

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unorganizable (comparative more unorganizable, superlative most unorganizable)

  1. 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.