organization Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a group of people who work together
    organisation.
  2. noun an organized structure for arranging or classifying
    organisation; system; arrangement.
    • 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
  3. noun the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
    governing body; organisation; administration; governance; brass; establishment.
    • 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
  4. noun the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business
    organisation.
    • he was brought in to supervise the organization of a new department
  5. noun an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized
    organisation; system.
    • his compulsive organization was not an endearing quality
    • we can't do it unless we establish some system around here
  6. noun the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically
    organisation.
    • his organization of the work force was very efficient
  7. noun the act of forming or establishing something
    formation; organisation; establishment; constitution.
    • the constitution of a PTA group last year
    • it was the establishment of his reputation
    • he still remembers the organization of the club

WordNet

Or`gan*i*za"tion noun
Etymology
Cf. F. organisation.
Definitions
  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 wich 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.

Webster 1913