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| 1. | [ noun ] a group of people who work together | |
| Synonyms: | organisation | |
| Related terms: | social_group association party company union force institution machine mission unit denomination enterprise machine blue alliance pool committee hierarchy gray deputation host establishment fire_brigade affiliate Peace_Corps line_organization fiefdom quango polity congress_of_racial_equality ngo musical_organization Salvation_Army Red_Cross girl_scouts Tammany_Hall federation greenpeace defense nt line_of_defense professional_organization Irish_Republican_Army professional_organisation AA association_of_orangemen membership quorum form organize unionize | |
| 2. | [ noun ] an organized structure for arranging or classifying | |
| Synonyms: | system arrangement organisation | |
| Examples: | "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" |
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| Related terms: | structure design distribution calendar living_arrangement coordinate_system data_structure lattice genetic_map contrivance classification_system organize systematize | |
| 3. | [ noun ] the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a governing body and who administer something | |
| Synonyms: | administration establishment brass organisation governing_body governance | |
| Examples: | "he claims that the present administration is corrupt" "the governance of an association is responsible to its members" |
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| Related terms: | body management judiciary executive government_officials top_brass county_council curia hierarchy advisory_board government hierarchy form organize administer organize mastermind | |
| 4. | [ noun ] the act of forming something | |
| Synonyms: | establishment formation constitution organisation | |
| Examples: | "the constitution of a PTA group last year" "it was the establishment of his reputation" "he still remembers the organization of the club" |
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| Related terms: | beginning colonization communization federation unionization collectivization establish establish form shape organize organize unionize | |
| 5. | [ noun ] (work,business) the act of organizing a business or business-related activity | |
| Synonyms: | organisation | |
| Examples: | "he was brought in to supervise the organization of a new department" |
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| Related terms: | administration systematization reorganization syndication self-organization form organize organize mastermind | |
| 6. | [ noun ] (physics) the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically | |
| Synonyms: | arrangement organisation | |
| Examples: | "in this new organization the container is much smaller" |
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| Related terms: | activity order systematization randomization territorialization rearrangement listing orchestration organize organize mastermind | |
| 7. | [ noun ] an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized | |
| Synonyms: | system organisation | |
| Examples: | "his compulsive organization was not an endearing quality" "we can't do it unless we establish some system around here" |
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| Related terms: | orderliness organize systematize | |
| Similar spelling: |
organizational organisation origination organification origination_fee originator originate organizer organized organiser organised originate_in organismic organismal organicism originative organically organic_law organicistic |
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