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organization |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Organization \Or`gan*i*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F. organisation.] 1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action as the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. ``The first organization of the general government.'' --Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also the relations included in such a state or condition. What is organization but the connection of parts in and for a whole, so that each part is at once, end and means? --Coleridge. 3. That which is organized; an organized existence; an organism; specif. (Biol.), an arrangement of parts for the performance of the functions necessary to life. The cell may be regarded as the most simple, the most common, and the earliest form of organization. --McKendrick. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: organization n 1: a group of people who work together [syn: {organisation}] 2: an organized structure for arranging or classifying; "he changed the arrangement of the topics"; "the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original"; "he tried to understand their system of classification" [syn: {arrangement}, {organisation}, {system}] 3: the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a governing body and who administer something "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment" [syn: {administration}, {governance}, {establishment}, {brass}, {organisation}] 4: the act of forming something "the constitution of a PTA group"; "he still remembers the establishment of the hospital" [syn: {constitution}, {establishment}, {formation}, {organisation}] 5: the act of organizing a business or business-related activity; "he was brought in to supervise the organization of a new department" [syn: {organisation}] 6: the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically; "in this new organization the container is much smaller" [syn: {organisation}, {arrangement}] 7: an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized; "his compulsive organization was not an endearing quality"; "we can't do it unless we establish some system around here" [syn: {organisation}, {system}]
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