Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Organization \Or`gan*i*za"tion\
([^o]r`gan*[imac]*z[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [Cf. F. organisation.]
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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.
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2. The state of being organized.
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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.
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The cell may be regarded as the most simple, the
most common, and the earliest form of organization.
--McKendrick.
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4. Specifically: A group of persons associated together for a
common purpose and having a set of rules which specify the
relations of the individual members to the whole gorup.
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5. The manner in which something is organized; the relations
included in an organized state or condition; as, the
organization of the department permits ad hoc groups to
form.
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What is organization but the connection of parts in
and for a whole, so that each part is, at once, end
and means? --Coleridge.
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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 body for the purpose of administering 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, governingbody, establishment, brass, organisation]
4: the act of forming something; "the constitution of a PTA
group last year"; "it was the establishment of his
reputation"; "he still remembers the organization of the
club" [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; "his organization of
the work force was very efficient" [syn: organisation]
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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