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Organisation   /ˌɔrgənɪzˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Organisation

noun
1.
The persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something.  Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organization.  "The governance of an association is responsible to its members" , "He quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment"
2.
A group of people who work together.  Synonym: organization.
3.
An organized structure for arranging or classifying.  Synonyms: arrangement, organization, system.  "The facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original" , "He tried to understand their system of classification"
4.
An ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized.  Synonyms: organization, system.  "We can't do it unless we establish some system around here"
5.
The act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business.  Synonym: organization.
6.
The activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically.  Synonym: organization.
7.
The act of forming or establishing something.  Synonyms: constitution, establishment, formation, organization.  "It was the establishment of his reputation" , "He still remembers the organization of the club"



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"Organisation" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Jupiter shone high in the south, before the capitulation was accomplished. Above was a slow insensible change, the advance of night serene and beautiful; below was hurry, excitement, conflicting orders, pauses, spasmodic developments of organisation, a vast ascending clamour and confusion. Before the Council came out, toiling perspiring men, directed by a conflict of shouts, carried forth hundreds of those who had perished in the hand-to-hand conflict within those long ...
— The Sleeper Awakes - A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes • H.G. Wells

... found reverent worship and following, not only of the spirit which rounds the pillars of the forest, and arches the vault of the avenue—which gives veining to the leaf and polish to the shell, and grace to every pulse that agitates animal organisation but of that also which reproves the pillars of the earth, and builds up her barren precipices into the coldness of the clouds, and lifts her shadowy cones of mountain purple into the pale arch of the sky; ...
— The Principles of Success in Literature • George Henry Lewes

... nations. There are, I am told, many organisations within the various nations of the world, intended to inspire the children with a love for their country and a desire to serve her, and that is surely good; but I wonder when there will be an international organisation to give the children of all nations common ideals also, and a knowledge of the real foundation of right action, ...
— Education as Service • J. Krishnamurti

... pyramids with five and six sides. He adds, that he had frequently seen in the upper valleys tufts of ice growing, as it were, out of the ground, and striated externally, but had never succeeded in discovering any internal organisation, until one evening in a time of thaw, when he found by means of a microscope that the striated tufts of ice had assumed the same structure on a small scale as that which he had ...
— Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland • George Forrest Browne

... General Court of Massachusetts, encouraging the fitting out of armed vessels to defend the coast of America, and granting letters of marque and reprisal. In October a conference of delegates was held, under Washington's presidency, of which Benjamin Franklin was a member, with regard to a new organisation of the army; and a new force of twenty-two thousand was formed, every soldier being ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol X • Various


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