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Definition of Organisation
1. Noun. The persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something. "He quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment"
Generic synonyms: Body
Group relationships: Authorities, Government, Regime
Specialized synonyms: Curia, Top Brass, Executive, Bench, Judiciary, County Council, Government Officials, Officialdom, Management
Terms within: Hierarchy, Pecking Order, Power Structure
Member holonyms: Advisory Board, Planning Board
Derivative terms: Administer, Organise, Organise, Organise, Organize, Organize, Organize, Organize
2. Noun. A group of people who work together.
Generic synonyms: Social Group
Specialized synonyms: Adhocracy, Affiliate, Bureaucracy, Ngo, Nongovernmental Organization, Tammany, Tammany Hall, Tammany Society, Fiefdom, Line Of Defence, Line Of Defense, Line Organisation, Line Organization, Association, Polity, Quango, Quasi-ngo, Establishment, Institution, Enterprise, Defence, Defence Force, Defense, Defense Force, Establishment, Fire Brigade, Fire Company, Company, Troupe, Social Unit, Unit, Peace Corps, Force, Personnel, Brotherhood, Labor Union, Trade Union, Trades Union, Union, Musical Group, Musical Organisation, Musical Organization, Party, Political Party, Machine, Political Machine, Machine, Professional Organisation, Professional Organization, Alignment, Alinement, Alliance, Coalition, Federation, Hierarchy, Pecking Order, Power Structure, Commission, Delegacy, Delegation, Deputation, Mission, Girl Scouts, Blue, Gray, Grey, Host, Pool
Specialized synonyms: Association Of Orangemen, Orange Order
Member holonyms: Quorum, Membership, Rank
Derivative terms: Organise, Organise, Organise, Organize, Organize, Organize
3. Noun. An organized structure for arranging or classifying. "He tried to understand their system of classification"
Generic synonyms: Structure
Specialized synonyms: Classification System, Contrivance, Coordinate System, Frame Of Reference, Reference Frame, Reference System, Data Structure, Design, Plan, Distribution, Statistical Distribution, Genetic Map, Kinship System, Lattice, Living Arrangement, Ontology, Calendar
Derivative terms: Organise, Organize, Systemise, Systemize
4. Noun. An ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized. "We can't do it unless we establish some system around here"
Generic synonyms: Methodicalness, Orderliness
Derivative terms: Organise, Organise, Organize, Systematic, Systemise, Systemize
5. Noun. 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"
Generic synonyms: Administration, Disposal
Specialized synonyms: Nonprofit, Nonprofit Organization, Not-for-profit, Rationalisation, Rationalization, Reorganisation, Reorganization, Shake-up, Shakeup, Self-organisation, Self-organization, Syndication
Derivative terms: Organise, Organise, Organise, Organise, Organize, Organize, Organize, Organize, Organize
6. Noun. The activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically. "His organization of the work force was very efficient"
Generic synonyms: Activity
Specialized synonyms: Randomisation, Randomization, Rationalisation, Rationalization, Systematisation, Systematization, Order, Ordering, Itemisation, Itemization, Listing, Territorialisation, Territorialization
Derivative terms: Organise, Organise, Organise, Organize, Organize, Organize
7. Noun. The act of forming or establishing something. "He still remembers the organization of the club"
Generic synonyms: Beginning, Commencement, Start
Specialized synonyms: Unionisation, Unionization, Collectivisation, Collectivization, Communisation, Communization, Federation, Colonisation, Colonization, Settlement
Derivative terms: Constitute, Establish, Establish, Form, Form, Organise, Organise, Organise, Organize, Organize, Organize, Organize, Organize
Definition of Organisation
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of organization) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Organisation
1. [n -S]
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Literary usage of Organisation
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1. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"Social Duties considered with reference to the organisation of Effort in Works
... IN the spring of 1905 the Charity organisation Society left the old house ..."
2. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1882)
"Under domestication, it may be truly iaid that the whole organisation becomes in
some degree plastic. But the variability, which we almost universally meet ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"By the end of September little had been done beyond the partial organisation of
a fifteenth corps at Tours, which had been placed under the command of the ..."
4. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1900)
"POLITICAL AND SOCIAL organisation OF THE EARLY GREEKS The Homeric poems give ...
But in the most ancient times this political organisation was weak Family ..."
5. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1906)
"If the levy and passage of troops must be prevented by a neutral, he is all the
more required to prevent the organisation of a hostile expedition from his ..."
6. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"Gradual process of development : from Personal to Territorial organisation.
Increase in power of the great nobles. them written which our fore-gangers held, ..."
7. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1891)
"Inner organisation not sufficiently known. The phylogenetic relations of the
worms are still a subject of much dispute. There are many different views. ..."
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