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Webster 1913 Edition
Organization
Orˊgan-i-za′tion
(ôrˊgan-ī-zā′shŭn)
, Noun.
[Cf. F.
organisation
.] 1.
The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action;
“The first organization of the general government.” as, the
. organization
of an army, or of a deliberative bodyPickering.
2.
The state of being organized.
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.
What is
organization
but the connection of parts in and for a whole, so that each part is, at once, end and means? Coleridge.
Webster 1828 Edition
Organization
ORGANIZA'TION
, n.1.
The act or process of forming organs or instruments of action.2.
The act of forming or arranging the parts of a compound or complex body in a suitable manner for use or service; the act of distributing into suitable divisions and appointing the proper officers, as an army or a government.The first organization of the general government.
3.
Structure; form; suitable disposition of parts which are to act together in a compound body.Definition 2024
organization
organization
English
Alternative forms
- organisation (British (common), Australia, New Zealand)
Noun
organization (countable and uncountable, plural organizations)
- (uncountable) The quality of being organized.
- 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
- This painting shows little organization at first glance, but little by little the structure becomes clear.
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- (uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
- The organization of the book is as follows.
- (countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
- In response to the crisis, the nations in the region formed an organization. If you want to be part of this organization, you have to follow its rules.
- (countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.
- Over time, the spontaneous movement had become an organization.
- (baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.
- He's been in the Dodgers' organization since 2003.
Hyponyms
- institute
- institution
- corporation
- firm
- company
- trade union
- labor union
- political party
- church
- school
- university
- hospital
- See also Wikisaurus:organization
Related terms
Translations
quality of being organized
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the way in which something is organized
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group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules
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group of people consciously cooperating
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External links
- organization in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- organization in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911