Organization

Noun

 * 1)  The quality of being organized.
 * This painting shows little organization at first glance, but little by little the structure becomes clear.
 * 1)  The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
 * The organization of the book is as follows.
 * 1)  A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
 * 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.
 * 1)  A group of people consciously cooperating.
 * Over time, the spontaneous movement had become an organization.

Hyponyms

 * institute
 * institution
 * corporation
 * firm
 * company
 * trade union
 * labor union
 * political party
 * church
 * school
 * university
 * hospital
 * See also Thesaurus:organization

Related terms

 * disorganization
 * organizational
 * organize

Adjectives for Organization
inadequate; active; magnificent; complete; accurate; hierarchical; ecclesiastical; far-flung; rudimentary; resounding; various (pi) ; producing; worthy; efficient; sweetly-functioning; secret; farsighted; vital; underlying; scientific; unified; matchless; constitutional; laborious; elaborate; competitive; well-drilled; distributing; independent; eleemosynary; internal; quasi-benevolent; quasi-military; odious; gigantic; monolithic; associational; nervous; abstinence; chartered; well-formed; stupendous; marvelous; militant: mammoth.

Verbs for Organization
disband—; dominate—; effect—; encourage —; endow—; envision—; evolve—; foster —; initiate—; penetrate—; perfect—; preside over—; revive—; sponsor—; subsidize ; suppress—; weaken—; —expands; -— functions; — merge.

Thesaurus
KP, adjustment, aerobic organism, affiliation, agency, anaerobic organism, anatomy, approach, architectonics, architecture, army, army group, arrangement, array, assemblage, assembling, assembly, atelier, attack, autotrophic organism, barbershop, battalion, battery, battle group, beauty parlor, beauty shop, being, bench, blueprint, blueprinting, body, branch, brigade, build, building, buildup, butcher shop, cadre, calculation, categorization, categorizing, charting, church, classification, classifying, coalition, codification, codifying, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, combination, combine, communion, community, company, composition, compound, conception, concern, concord, confederacy, confederation, configuration, conformation, conglomerate, consortium, constitution, construction, contrivance, coordination, corporation, corps, creation, creature, denomination, deployment, design, desk, detachment, detail, device, disposal, disposition, division, effectuation, embodiment, enterprise, envisagement, establishment, fabric, fabrication, facility, faction, fashion, fashioning, federation, fellowship, field army, field train, figuring, file, firm, flying column, foresight, forethought, forging, form, format, formation, foundation, frame, framework, game, garrison, genetic individual, getup, graphing, ground plan, group, grouping, guidelines, harmonization, harmony, heterotrophic organism, house, idea, inauguration, inception, incorporation, individual, installation, institute, institution, intention, junction, kitchen police, layout, league, legion, lineup, living being, living thing, loft, long-range plan, make, makeup, making, maniple, manufacture, mapping, marshaling, master plan, materialization, method, methodization, methodology, microbe, microorganism, mixture, mold, molding, morphological individual, normalization, offshoot, ont, operations research, order, ordination, organic being, organic structure, organism, organizing, outfit, parlor, party, pattern, patterning, peace, persuasion, phalanx, physiological individual, physique, piecing together, plan, planning, planning function, platoon, posse, prearrangement, procedure, production, program, program of action, proportion, putting together, quiet, quietude, rank, rationalization, realization, regiment, regularity, regularization, regulation, religious order, routine, routinization, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, schism, school, sect, sectarism, section, segment, setting-up, setup, shape, shaping, shop, society, squad, squadron, strategic plan, strategy, structure, structuring, studio, sweatshop, symmetry, syndicate, syneresis, synthesis, system, systematization, systematizing, tactical plan, tactical unit, tactics, task force, tectonics, texture, the big picture, the picture, tissue, train, tranquillity, troop, uniformity, unit, variety, version, virus, warp and woof, way, weave, web, wing, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working plan, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable, zooid, zoon

Alternative forms

 * organisation

Translations

 * Arabic: (tartīb),   ,
 * Armenian: կազմակերպվածություն
 * Catalan: organització
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: ,
 * Mandarin:, 机构
 * Dutch: ordening
 * Finnish: järjestäytyminen, organisoituminen;
 * French:
 * German:


 * Greek: οργάνωση
 * Japanese: ,
 * Lithuanian:, organizuotumas
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: organizaţie
 * Russian:, организованность
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish:
 * Lithuanian: organizavimas


 * Romanian: organizare
 * Swahili:


 * Arabic: منظمة, مؤسسة
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: organització
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:, , ,
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,  机构,  ,  ,  團體,  团体
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: οργάνωση,
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hungarian:


 * Indonesian: organisasi
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Khmer: អង្គការ
 * Korean: 조직 (jojik)
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maltese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: (hái’a)
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: organització
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: οργάνωση
 * Japanese: ,


 * Kurdish:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maltese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: organizaţie
 * Romansch:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: