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say it: awr-guh-nuh-ZAY-shuhn
organization is a noun meaning "a group of people who work together". It carries 7 recorded senses.
a group of people who work together
an organized structure for arranging or classifying
“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
“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
“he was brought in to supervise the organization of a new department”
an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized
“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
“his organization of the work force was very efficient”
the act of forming or establishing something
“the constitution of a PTA group last year”
“it was the establishment of his reputation”
“he still remembers the organization of the club”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for organization come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.