organization : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: organization	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for organization
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
organization n a group of people who work together [syn: organization, organisation] 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" Synonym(s): arrangement, organization, organisation, system 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" Synonym(s): administration, governance, governing body, establishment, brass, organization, 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" Synonym(s): organization, organisation 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" Synonym(s): organization, organisation, system the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically; "his organization of the work force was very efficient" Synonym(s): organization, 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" Synonym(s): constitution, establishment, formation, organization, organisation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Organization \Or`ganiza"tion\, n. [Cf. F. organisation.] 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. [bd]The first organization of the general government.[b8] --Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also, the relations included in such a state or condition. What is organization but the connection of parts in and for a whole, so that each part is, at once, end and means? --Coleridge. 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. --McKendrick.