Hypertext Webster Gateway: "organization"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Organization \Or`gan*i*za"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. ``The first
organization of the general government.'' --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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

organization
n 1: a group of people who work together [syn: {organisation}]
2: 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" [syn: {arrangement}, {organisation}, {system}]
3: the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up
a governing body and who administer 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" [syn: {administration}, {governance}, {establishment},
{brass}, {organisation}]
4: the act of forming something; "the constitution of a PTA
group"; "he still remembers the establishment of the
hospital" [syn: {constitution}, {establishment}, {formation},
{organisation}]
5: the act of organizing a business or business-related
activity; "he was brought in to supervise the organization
of a new department" [syn: {organisation}]
6: the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons
or things properly or methodically; "in this new
organization the container is much smaller" [syn: {organisation},
{arrangement}]
7: 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" [syn: {organisation}, {system}]


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