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Organization   /ˌɔrgənəzˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Organization  n.  
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."
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."
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.
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. "What is organization but the connection of parts in and for a whole, so that each part is, at once, end and means?"






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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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