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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun organization has 7 senses
- organization(n = noun.group) organisation - a group of people who work together; Array is a kind of social group
- organization(n = noun.cognition) arrangement, organisation, system - 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" is a kind of structure
- organization(n = noun.group) administration, brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation - 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" is a kind of body
- organization(n = noun.act) organisation - the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business; "he was brought in to supervise the organization of a new department" is a kind of administration, disposal
- organization(n = noun.attribute) organisation, system - 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" is a kind of methodicalness, orderliness
- organization(n = noun.act) organisation - the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically; "his organization of the work force was very efficient" is a kind of activity
- organization(n = noun.act) constitution, establishment, formation, organisation - the act of forming or establishing something; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation"; "he still remembers the organization of the club" is a kind of beginning, commencement, start
has particulars: adhocracy, affiliate, bureaucracy, ngo, nongovernmental organization, tammany, tammany hall, tammany society, fiefdom, line of defence, line of defense, line organisation, line organization, association, polity, quango, quasi-ngo, establishment, institution, enterprise, defence, defence force, defense, defense force, establishment, fire brigade, fire company, company, troupe, social unit, unit, peace corps, force, personnel, brotherhood, labor union, trade union, trades union, union, musical group, musical organisation, musical organization, party, political party, machine, political machine, machine, professional organisation, professional organization, alignment, alinement, alliance, coalition, federation, hierarchy, pecking order, power structure, commission, delegacy, delegation, deputation, mission, girl scouts, blue, gray, grey, host, pool, association of orangemen, orange order
Derived forms verb organize5, verb organize6, verb organize1
has particulars: classification system, contrivance, coordinate system, frame of reference, reference frame, reference system, data structure, design, plan, distribution, statistical distribution, genetic map, kinship system, lattice, living arrangement, ontology, calendar
Derived form verb organize4
is a part of authorities, government, regime
has particulars: curia, top brass, executive, bench, judiciary, county council, government officials, officialdom, management
has parts: hierarchy, pecking order, power structure
Derived forms verb organize4, verb organize3, verb organize2, verb organize1
has particulars: nonprofit, nonprofit organization, not-for-profit, rationalisation, rationalization, reorganisation, reorganization, shake-up, shakeup, self-organisation, self-organization, syndication
Derived forms verb organize4, verb organize3, verb organize5, verb organize2, verb organize1
Derived form verb organize4
has particulars: randomisation, randomization, rationalisation, rationalization, systematisation, systematization, order, ordering, itemisation, itemization, listing, territorialisation, territorialization
Derived forms verb organize4, verb organize3, verb organize2
has particulars: unionisation, unionization, collectivisation, collectivization, communisation, communization, federation, colonisation, colonization, settlement
Derived forms verb organize4, verb organize5, verb organize2, verb organize6, verb organize1
CIDE DICTIONARY
organization, n. [Cf. F. organisation.].
- 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. Pickering. [1913 Webster]
- The state of being organized. [1913 Webster]
- That which is organized; an organized existence; an organism [1913 Webster]"The cell may be regarded as the most simple, the most common, and the earliest form of organization." [1913 Webster]
- 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]
- 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?" [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
organization, n. (also -isation)
1 the act or an instance of organizing; the state of being organized.
2 an organized body, esp. a business, government department, charity, etc.
3 systematic arrangement; tidiness.
1 the act or an instance of organizing; the state of being organized.
2 an organized body, esp. a business, government department, charity, etc.
3 systematic arrangement; tidiness.
Idiom
organization man a man who subordinates his individuality and his personal life to the organization he serves.
Derivative
organizational adj. organizationally adv.
THESAURUS
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, zoonROGET THESAURUS
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Plan
N plan, scheme, design, project, proposal, proposition, suggestion, resolution, motion, precaution, deep- laid plan, system, organization, germ, sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche, brouillon, rough cast, rough draft, draught copy, copy, proof, revise, drawing, scheme, schematic, graphic, chart, flow chart (representation), forecast, program, programme, prospectus, carte du pays, card, bill, protocol, order of the day, list of agenda, bill of fare, base of operations, platform, plank, slate, ticket, role, policy, contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device, pipelaying, stratagem, trick, alternative, loophole, shift, last shift, measure, step, stroke, stroke of policy, master stroke, trump card, court card, cheval de bataille, great gun, coup, coup d'etat, clever stroke, bold stroke, good move, good hit, good stroke, bright thought, bright idea, intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot, machination, subplot, underplot, counterplot, schemer, schemist, schematist, strategist, machinator, projector, artist, promoter, designer, conspirator, intrigant, planned, strategic, strategical, planning, prepared, in course of preparation, under consideration, on the tapis, on the carpet, on the floor.Arrangement
N arrangement, plan, preparation, disposal, disposition, collocation, allocation, distribution, sorting, assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization, grouping, tabulation, analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion, digest, synopsis, syntagma, table, atlas, file, database, register, organism, architecture, sieve, riddle, screen, sorter, arranged, embattled, in battle array, cut and dried, methodical, orderly, regular, systematic, In vast cumbrous array.Production
N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.Texture
N texture, structure (form), organization, anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction, framework, carcass, architecture, stratification, cleavage, substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma, constitution, staple, organism, organography, osteology, myology, splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology, angiography, adenography, texture, surface texture, intertexture, contexture, tissue, grain, web, surface, warp and woof, warp and weft, tooth, nap, flatness (smoothness), fineness of grain, coarseness of grain, dry goods, silk, satin, muslin, burlap, histology, structural, organic, anatomic, anatomical, textural, textile, fine grained, coarse grained, fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny, coarse, homespun, rough, gritty, smooth, smooth as silk, smooth as satin.Organization
N organization, organized world, organized nature, living nature, animated nature, living beings, organic remains, fossils, protoplasm, cytoplasm, protein, albumen, structure, organization, organism, biology, natural history, organic chemistry, anatomy, physiology, zoology, botany, microbiology, virology, bacteriology, mycology, naturalist, archegenesis, antherozoid, bioplasm, biotaxy, chromosome, dysmeromorph, ecology, oecology, erythroblast, gametangium, gamete, germinal matter, invagination, isogamy, oogamy, karyaster, macrogamete, microgamete, metabolism, anabolism, catabolism, metaplasm, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary, spermatozoon, trophoplasm, vacuole, vertebration, zoogloea, zygote, Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, Weismannism, morphology, taxonomy, organic, organized, karyoplasmic, unsegmentic, vacuolar, zoogloeic, zoogloeoid, organization, organized world, organized nature, living nature, animated nature, living beings, organic remains, fossils, protoplasm, cytoplasm, protein, albumen, structure, organization, organism, biology, natural history, organic chemistry, anatomy, physiology, zoology, botany, microbiology, virology, bacteriology, mycology, naturalist, archegenesis, antherozoid, bioplasm, biotaxy, chromosome, dysmeromorph, ecology, oecology, erythroblast, gametangium, gamete, germinal matter, invagination, isogamy, oogamy, karyaster, macrogamete, microgamete, metabolism, anabolism, catabolism, metaplasm, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary, spermatozoon, trophoplasm, vacuole, vertebration, zoogloea, zygote, Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, Weismannism, morphology, taxonomy, organic, organized, karyoplasmic, unsegmentic, vacuolar, zoogloeic, zoogloeoid.
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