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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



... are its corollary; all the phenomena which pass in the consciousness have their source in the organization, of which the consciousness in itself is simply a result. All the ideas come from the senses. To think, is to calculate; and intelligence is nothing else than an arithmetic. As we do not calculate with out signs, we do not think without words; the truth of ...
— Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers - Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With - The Freethinkers." • Charles Bradlaugh, A. Collins, and J. Watts

... colony in the Isthmus of Panama, and to attract thither the whole trade of North and South America. The ports of the colony were to be open to ships of all nations. In the end of 1698 twelve hundred Scots landed on the shore of the Gulf of Darien, without organization and without the restraint of responsibility to any government. They soon had difficulties with their Spanish neighbours, and the English colonists at New York, Barbadoes, and Jamaica were warned to render them no assistance. Disease and famine completed ...
— An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) • Robert S. Rait

... hundred miles from settlement I came on a woman who belonged to that very type that ought never to emigrate. She was a woman picked out of the slums by a charity organization. She had presumably been scrubbed and curried and taught household duties before being shipped in a famous colony to Canada. The colony went to pieces in a deplorable failure on facing its first year of difficulties, but she had married a Canadian ...
— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut

... the better. If your sister is going to be murdered it may as well be done next week as next year so far as I am concerned. Excuse my brutality, Mr. Hollyer, but this is simply a case to me and I regard it strategically. Now Mr. Carlyle's organization can look after Mrs. Creake for a few weeks, but it cannot look after her for ever. By increasing the immediate risk we diminish ...
— Four Max Carrados Detective Stories • Ernest Bramah

... in the physical organization of man, to the action of pain. When suffering has reached a given point of intensity the nervous sensibility becomes incapable of feeling more. The rule of Nature, in this respect, applies not only to sufferers in the body, but to sufferers ...
— The New Magdalen • Wilkie Collins


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