organization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɔɹɡənɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɔɹɡnɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɔɹɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɔɹˈɡænɪzeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: organizations
form: organisation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French organisation, from Medieval Latin organizātiō; by surface analysis, organize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: This painting shows little organization at first glance, but little by little the structure becomes clear.
text: The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
ref: 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: The quality of being organized.
examples: text: The organization of the book is as follows.
glosses: The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
examples: text: In response to the crisis, the nations in the region formed an organization. If you want to be part of this organization, you have to follow its rules.
glosses: A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
examples: text: Over time, the spontaneous movement had become an organization.
glosses: A group of people consciously cooperating.
examples: text: He's been in the Dodgers' organization since 2003.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A major league club and all its farm teams.
Synonyms: word: organization/organisation
Hypernyms: word: group
Hyponyms: word: church
word: company
word: corporation
word: firm
word: hospital
word: institute
word: institution
word: labor union
word: political party
word: school
word: trade union
word: university
word: alliance
word: association
word: brotherhood
word: business
word: cabal
word: camarilla
word: charity
word: committee
word: confederation
word: confraternity
word: coterie
word: country
word: enterprise
word: establishment
word: federation
word: fraternity
word: intergovernmental organization
word: international organization
word: league
word: nonprofit
word: sisterhood
word: society
word: sorority
word: syndicate
word: team
Meronyms: word: department
word: person
Derived terms: antiorganization
articles of organization
charitable organization
counterorganization
cyberorganization
disorganization
dispute resolution organization
employers' organization
front organization
health maintenance organization
inorganization
international organization
interorganization
intraorganization
malorganization
merorganization
misorganization
multiorganization
mutual organization
non-governmental organization
nonorganization
organigram
organizational
organization chart
organization man
paper organization
parent-teacher organization
preorganization
reorganization
rubber stamp organization
self-organization
standards organization
suborganization
supraorganization
umbrella organization
underorganization
virtual organization
youth organization
zombie organization
Related terms: word: organize
word: :Category:en:Organizations
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class V § 712. Party
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class V § 709. Cooperation
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class VI § 968. Lawyer