an organized structure for arranging or classifying
<noun.cognition> 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
the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
<noun.group> 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
the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business
<noun.act> he was brought in to supervise the organization of a new department
an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized
<noun.attribute> his compulsive organization was not an endearing quality we can't do it unless we establish some system around here
the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically
<noun.act> his organization of the work force was very efficient
the act of forming or establishing something
<noun.act> the constitution of a PTA group last year it was the establishment of his reputation he still remembers the organization of the club
Organization \Or`gan*i*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F. organisation.] 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.
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. --McKendrick.
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. [PJC]
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. [PJC]
What is organization but the connection of parts in and for a whole, so that each part is, at once, end and means? --Coleridge.
Can we never see eye-to-eye until all 120 million Japanese become Christians?" My second encounter occurred in the late 1980s, when I overheard a comment as I passed by a meeting room in the New York head office of a major financial organization.
Authorities confiscated 570 pounds of heroin alleged to have been imported by Kon's organization in several seizures over the years, Stutman said.
Then they recruited what seemed to be every senior-citizens organization in the state to say that a Thornburgh ad touting his record helping older people was riddled with inaccuracies.
A Planned Parenthood spokeswoman said the organization is considering whether to appeal.
Bruce Viclad, president of the United Hospital Fund in New York, who recently reviewed data on AIDS cases there, said his organization found the CDC estimate a little high and said the Hudson Institute estimates were improbable.
The idea of a legal consumer-rights watchdog organization was hatched at a Washington cocktail party in 1978 by two Rhodes scholars, who then founded HALT.
States should set guidelines for awards in damage suits because juries are blind to the impact their liability judgments have beyond the courtroom, an organization of business executives and educators said today.
"This confirms our suspicions that small investors were and remain the invisible victims of the Oct. 19 stock market crash," said John Baldwin, the new president of the NASAA, the national organization for state securities regulators.
Rice said he created the contest to provoke San Jose State students to approach writing playfully and with a sense of whimsy. A campus literary organization is named the Bulwer-Lytton Undergraduate Society.
From a recent report by the organization Accuracy in Media: ABC and NBC have announced large cuts in the staffs of their broadcast standards and practices divisions in recent weeks.
"NCR is an enormous organization, and it isn't going to change overnight," says Ronald Stanczak, a former executive.
Ashland Oil Co. already has phased out its operations there, said David Hauck, an analyst with the Washington-based organization.
Britain decided to go ahead with the recommendation without waiting for the international organization to take action, said the transport spokesman who, in line with British custom, is not identified by name.
Pittston dropped out of the national coal industry bargaining organization before negotiations began for the 1988 agreement, saying the company's needs were different than those of the rest of the industry.
Soviet authorities have come under considerable criticism for lack of organization in the quake relief efforts, but many of the area's leaders died or wandered in shock for days after crawling out of the rubble to find their families gone.
The letter pushed by Dukakis and Schaefer went beyond a milder mention that Republican Gov. Terry Branstad, outgoing chairman of the governors' organization, and Gardner made in a letter to Bush before the meeting.
She said she saw crack cocaine made and sold, saw organization members get paid up to $800 a week and saw people beaten who crossed the Chambers brothers. "I got pulled into it.
Israel rejected the PLO declarations as a ploy and continued its refusal to negotiate with the organization.
The professional standard-setting organization also released new government figures indicating that the U.S. rate, the highest in the developed world, may finally be leveling off after rising steeply since the mid-1970s.
Baptist conservatives had mixed reactions to the organization.
Early this month, Navigation Foundation President Thomas D. Davies, whose organization the society hired to look into the Peary controversy, announced that a worksheet Rawlins thought held compass calculations actually showed time readings.
We have to raise wages for the entry level, but we're not passing it through the organization.'"
The Owego Apalachin Central School District in upstate New York refused to rent out a school auditorium to Birthright of Owego Inc., an anti-abortion pregnancy counseling organization.
East, a onetime college professor, ran for the Senate in 1980 under the wing of the National Congressional Club, the political organization of Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C. He defeated Democratic incumbent Robert Morgan.
Her organization has been critical of the INS and immigration laws, saying they don't address the social problems that make people desperate enough to try illegal entry into the United States.
Francisco Claver, national director of NASSA, said that the organization had not been dissolved, that what the Catholic bishops of the Philippines had done was to place it directly under their control by withdrawing its status as an autonomous foundation.
Residents quickly formed an organization, Clean Air Northfield, to investigate the health threat.
When combined with an additional 641,609 shares sold in a subscription offering, the sale completes First Federal's conversion from a mutual to a stock form of organization.
The head of a Temple University group that advocates "white pride" says the organization isn't racist, but was formed to balance the "pro-minority" stance taken by school officials.
The KGB went so far Wednesday as to show a film to journalists, "The KGB Today," billed as the first documentary about the organization and slated for distribution both inside and outside the Soviet Union.