Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Organization \Or`gan*i*za"tion\
([^o]r`gan*[imac]*z[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [Cf. F. organisation.]
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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.
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2. The state of being organized.
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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.
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The cell may be regarded as the most simple, the
most common, and the earliest form of organization.
--McKendrick.
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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.
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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.
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What is organization but the connection of parts in
and for a whole, so that each part is, at once, end
and means? --Coleridge.
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