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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



... under no oath," she ruminated. "I can tell this man what I will. Mr. Abbott, there has been formed in this city an organization against which the police are powerless. I am an involuntary member of it, and I know its power. It has constrained me and it has constrained others, and no one who has opposed it once has lived to do so twice. Yet it has no recognized head ...
— The Bronze Hand - 1897 • Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)
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... them. When farmers began to associate themselves together as in the Grange, they recognized the need of a strong local group larger than the neighborhood. A subordinate Grange for example is a community organization. Experience gradually demonstrated that if farmers wished to cooperate they must cooperate in local groups. Strong nation-wide organizations are clearly of great importance, but they can have little strength unless they are made up of active ...
— The Farmer and His Community • Dwight Sanderson
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... of the United American Veterans' Association with uncommon interest, because it is distinctively a national organization, in which shriveled sectionalism and party prejudice find no place. Its corner- stone is American manhood, its object fraternity, its principles broad as the continent upon which falls the shadow of our ...
— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
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... energies. By day and by night he planned and dreamed and toiled for the development of his mine. With equal enthusiasm Brown and French joined in this enterprise. It was French that undertook to deal with all matters pertaining to the organization of a company by which the mine should be operated. Registration of claim, the securing of capital, the obtaining of charter, all these matters were left in his hands. A few weeks' correspondence, ...
— The Foreigner • Ralph Connor
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... that you have an entirely different internal organization. What is it that is different? I can't believe that ...
— Islands of Space • John W Campbell
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