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Organization   /ˌɔrgənəzˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Organization

noun
1.
A group of people who work together.  Synonym: organisation.
2.
An organized structure for arranging or classifying.  Synonyms: arrangement, organisation, 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"
3.
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, organisation.  "The governance of an association is responsible to its members" , "He quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment"
4.
The act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business.  Synonym: organisation.
5.
An ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized.  Synonyms: organisation, system.  "We can't do it unless we establish some system around here"
6.
The activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically.  Synonym: organisation.
7.
The act of forming or establishing something.  Synonyms: constitution, establishment, formation, organisation.  "It was the establishment of his reputation" , "He still remembers the organization of the club"



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"Organization" Quotes from Famous Books



... their minds with regard to the fact of her being the seat of vegetable or animal life? Without exception, it would seem, they have all been led to the belief that the moon is not inhabited; that she is, so far as life and organization are concerned, waste and barren, like the streams of lava or of volcanic ashes on the earth, before any vestige of vegetation has been impressed upon them; or like the sands of Africa, where no blade of grass finds root." [434] Robert Chambers says: "It does not appear that our satellite is provided ...
— Moon Lore • Timothy Harley

... on your side of the fence. You're working for one organization and I for another. Any little tip I let slip is just for your personal use. Don't bother ...
— Mary Louise • Edith van Dyne (one of L. Frank Baum's pen names)

... life-blood. Literature is not a varnish or a polish. It is not a wardrobe. It is the result of a vital, imaginative relation of the man to his subject. And Emerson's subject-matter at its best always partakes of the texture of his own mind. It is admitted that there are times when his writing lacks organization,—the vital ties,—when his rhetoric is more like a rocking-horse or a merry-go-round than like the real thing. But there are few writers who do not mark time now and then, and Emerson is no exception; and I contend that at ...
— The Last Harvest • John Burroughs

... dark—quite dark. There was nothing painful nor unnatural in their look, save, perhaps, the blankness of gaze which I have before noticed. Outwardly, their organization was perfect; but in the fine inner mechanism was something wrong—something wanting. She never had seen—never would see—in ...
— John Halifax, Gentleman • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

... Institute has a Web site that contains information about its activities and objectives, including its mission to protect the reproductive choices of women and men. Plaintiff Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. ("Planned Parenthood") is a national voluntary organization in the field of reproductive health care. Planned Parenthood owns and operates several Web sites that provide a range of information about reproductive health, from contraception to prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, to finding an abortion provider, and to information ...
— Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania


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