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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



... hoped, that a good, and thoroughly efficient system of sanitary organisation may be speedily established in all the rapidly-growing towns throughout the country, especially in the Transvaal. Terrible neglect in this respect has been the cause of exceptional sickness, and great mortality in the past, for which the climate is not responsible. In order, too, to render ...
— A Winter Tour in South Africa • Frederick Young

... heat, which are combined with them, require to be also immersed in loose heat and loose oxygen to preserve their mutable existence; and hence life only exists on or near the surface of the earth; see Botan. Garden, Vol. I. Canto IV. l. 419. L'organisation, le sentiment, le movement spontane, la vie, n'existent qu'a la surface de la terre, et dans les lieux exposes a la lumiere. Traite de Chimie par M. Lavoisier, Tom. ...
— The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society - A Poem, with Philosophical Notes • Erasmus Darwin

... comedy. Mr. Daly began management in 1869, and he has remained in it, almost continually, from that time to this. Many players, first and last, have served under his direction. His company has known vicissitudes. But the organisation has not lost its comprehensive form, its competent force, and its attractive quality of essential grace. No thoughtful observer of its career can have failed to perceive how prompt the manager has been to profit by every lesson of experience; what keen ...
— Shadows of the Stage • William Winter

... will, however, be good if we are induced to come down from the English pedestal in Europe of incessant self-glorification, and learn that our close, stifling, corrupt system gives no air nor scope for healthy and effective organisation anywhere. We are oligarchic in all things, from our parliament to our army. Individual interests are admitted as obstacles to the general prosperity. This plague runs through all things with us. It accounts for the fact ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

... sort of tree and shrub you can get branches of. You are to make two studies of each bough, for this reason—all masses of foliage have an upper and under surface, and the side view of them, or profile, shows a wholly different organisation of branches from that seen in the view from above. They are generally seen more or less in profile, as you look at the whole tree, and Nature puts her best composition into the profile arrangement. But the view from above or below occurs not unfrequently, also, and it is quite necessary ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin


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