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structured

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English

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Etymology

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    From structure + -ed.

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    Adjective

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    structured (comparative more structured, superlative most structured)

    1. Having structure; organized.
      • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 137:
        Over the centuries the movement of clans and tribes of people has provided the kind of crop that would emerge if a blind god had sprinkled seeds at random on a field - a vast array of diverse patterns, usually not even interlocking or decussated, but crossed and intersected by every kind of structured diversity.
      • 2020 March 16, Matt Villano, “How ‘regular school’ parents can homeschool their kids”, in CNN[1]:
        Dr. Jessie Voigts, a homeschooler and founder of Wandering Educators, a global community of educators sharing travel experiences, said it doesn’t matter if this time is structured or unstructured, so long as the kids get outside.

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    Verb

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    structured

    1. simple past and past participle of structure
      He structured the loan with a twenty-year term.