From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Organization \Or'gan*i*za"tion\, noun [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.
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.
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. [PJC]
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. [PJC]
What is organization but the connection of parts in and for a whole, so that each part is, at once, end and means? --Coleridge.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
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}, {governing body}, {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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
276 Moby Thesaurus words for "organization": KP, adjustment, aerobic organism, affiliation, agency, anaerobic organism, anatomy, approach, architectonics, architecture, army, army group, arrangement, array, assemblage, assembling, assembly, atelier, attack, autotrophic organism, barbershop, battalion, battery, battle group, beauty parlor, beauty shop, being, bench, blueprint, blueprinting, body, branch, brigade, build, building, buildup, butcher shop, cadre, calculation, categorization, categorizing, charting, church, classification, classifying, coalition, codification, codifying, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, combination, combine, communion, community, company, composition, compound, conception, concern, concord, confederacy, confederation, configuration, conformation, conglomerate, consortium, constitution, construction, contrivance, coordination, corporation, corps, creation, creature, denomination, deployment, design, desk, detachment, detail, device, disposal, disposition, division, effectuation, embodiment, enterprise, envisagement, establishment, fabric, fabrication, facility, faction, fashion, fashioning, federation, fellowship, field army, field train, figuring, file, firm, flying column, foresight, forethought, forging, form, format, formation, foundation, frame, framework, game, garrison, genetic individual, getup, graphing, ground plan, group, grouping, guidelines, harmonization, harmony, heterotrophic organism, house, idea, inauguration, inception, incorporation, individual, installation, institute, institution, intention, junction, kitchen police, layout, league, legion, lineup, living being, living thing, loft, long-range plan, make, makeup, making, maniple, manufacture, mapping, marshaling, master plan, materialization, method, methodization, methodology, microbe, microorganism, mixture, mold, molding, morphological individual, normalization, offshoot, ont, operations research, order, ordination, organic being, organic structure, organism, organizing, outfit, parlor, party, pattern, patterning, peace, persuasion, phalanx, physiological individual, physique, piecing together, plan, planning, planning function, platoon, posse, prearrangement, procedure, production, program, program of action, proportion, putting together, quiet, quietude, rank, rationalization, realization, regiment, regularity, regularization, regulation, religious order, routine, routinization, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, schism, school, sect, sectarism, section, segment, setting-up, setup, shape, shaping, shop, society, squad, squadron, strategic plan, strategy, structure, structuring, studio, sweatshop, symmetry, syndicate, syneresis, synthesis, system, systematization, systematizing, tactical plan, tactical unit, tactics, task force, tectonics, texture, the big picture, the picture, tissue, train, tranquillity, troop, uniformity, unit, variety, version, virus, warp and woof, way, weave, web, wing, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working plan, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable, zooid, zoon
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