Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act or process of organizing.
  • noun The state or manner of being organized.
  • noun A manner of accomplishing something in an orderly or efficient way.
  • noun A group of persons organized for a particular purpose; an association or business.
  • noun The administrative personnel of such a structure.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In biology: The structural composition of an organism.
  • noun Metaphorically, the cause or explanation of the structure of organisms; that which organizes; an organizing influence. Most of the attempts to imagine an architecture in the egg as an explanation of the structure of the being that is developed from the egg are based upon the metaphorical conception of organization. See germ-plasm and physiological unit.
  • noun In pathology, conversion of an amorphous substance, such as a blood-clot, into organized tissue.
  • noun The act of organizing, or the process of disposing or arranging constituent or interdependent parts into an organic whole.
  • noun The process of arranging or systematizing; specifically, the process of combining parts into a coördinated whole: as, the organization of an expedition.
  • noun That which is organized; a regularly constituted whole or aggregate; an organism, or a systematized and regulated whole; any body which has a definite constitution: often used specifically of an organized body of persons, as a literary society, club, corporation, etc.
  • noun Organic structure or constitution; arrangement, disposition, or collocation of interdependent parts or organs; constitution in general: as, animal organization; the organization of society; the organization of the church or of a legislature.
  • noun Also spelled organisation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action.
  • noun The state of being organized.
  • noun (Biol.) That which is organized; an organized existence; an organism.
  • noun 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.
  • noun The manner in which something is organized; the relations included in an organized state or condition.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable The quality of being organized.
  • noun uncountable The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
  • noun countable A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
  • noun countable A group of people consciously cooperating.
  • noun baseball A major league club and all its farm teams.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
  • noun the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically
  • noun an organized structure for arranging or classifying
  • noun an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized
  • noun the act of forming or establishing something
  • noun a group of people who work together
  • noun the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business

Etymologies

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organize +‎ -ation

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Examples

  • If, then, every known organization is redolent with contrivance, and teems with marks of design, by what analogy can we conclude that _Deity's organization_ is devoid of these properties? "

    Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws James Buchanan 1837

  • "Just as remarkable as Crow's ability to raise money is his bewilderingly complex organization -- if, indeed, the term organization can be accurately applied," Fortune magazine reported in 1973.

    Developer Broke Ground With Short-Lease Model 2009

  • While the difference in organization is of common knowledge, the consequences do not seem to have been recognized when democratic states began intervening in economic life.

    The Social Order 1943

  • This drew forth another question: "What do you understand by the term organization?"

    History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church 1891

  • The term organization includes the conversion of the effusion into tissue, taking its character from the subjacent structures; the development of false membranes: and the formation of certain heteromorphous products, as Tubercle, Cancer, &c.

    An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863

  • We can define the term organization as two or more individuals who are interacting with each other within a deliberately structured set up and working in an interdependent way to achieve some common objectives.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • She says she's explained that her organization is a legitimate nonprofit serving vets, whose identities are verified through discharge paperwork and checked again with the Department of Veterans Affairs and other federal agencies.

    Media Coverage aPRIL 2009 2010

  • But the current members can tell you about the current in-fighting, the good things that the organization is attempting to do, and why they joined this particular group.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2010 » March 2010

  • Unless the organization has a flattened structure where employees can attend Board Meetings, then the sole source of information about the organization is the CEO or ED.

    OnPoint swoon partially explained (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • The website for the organization is a blog with no list of staff, board of directors or donor information.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Mothers Against Debt 2010

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