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 Dictionary entry overview: What does organisation mean? 

• ORGANISATION (noun)
  The noun ORGANISATION has 7 senses:

1. the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something

2. a group of people who work together

3. an organized structure for arranging or classifying

4. an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized

5. the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business

6. the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically

7. the act of forming or establishing something

  Familiarity information: ORGANISATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORGANISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

administration; brass; establishment; governance; governing body; organisation; organization

Context example:

he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment

Hypernyms ("organisation" is a kind of...):

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

Meronyms (parts of "organisation"):

hierarchy; pecking order; power structure (the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body)

Meronyms (members of "organisation"):

advisory board; planning board (a board appointed to advise the chief administrator)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "organisation"):

Curia ((Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church)

top brass (the most important persons in a governing body)

executive (persons who administer the law)

bench; judiciary (persons who administer justice)

county council (the elected governing body of a county)

government officials; officialdom (people elected or appointed to administer a government)

management (those in charge of running a business)

Holonyms ("organisation" is a part of...):

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

Derivation:

organise (plan and direct (a complex undertaking))

organise (cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea)

organise (create (as an entity))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A group of people who work together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

organisation; organization

Hypernyms ("organisation" is a kind of...):

social group (people sharing some social relation)

Meronyms (members of "organisation"):

quorum (a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business)

membership; rank (the body of members of an organization or group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "organisation"):

social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)

Peace Corps (a civilian organization sponsored by the United States government; helps people in developing countries)

force; personnel (group of people willing to obey orders)

brotherhood; labor union; trade union; trades union; union (an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer)

musical group; musical organisation; musical organization (an organization of musicians who perform together)

party; political party (an organization to gain political power)

machine; political machine (a group that controls the activities of a political party)

machine (an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently)

professional organisation; professional organization (an organization of and for professional people)

alignment; alinement; alliance; coalition (an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty)

federation (an organization formed by merging several groups or parties)

hierarchy; pecking order; power structure (the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body)

commission; delegacy; delegation; deputation; mission (a group of representatives or delegates)

Girl Scouts (an organization of young women and girls founded in 1912 for character development and citizenship training)

blue (any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue)

gray; grey (any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey)

host (any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event)

pool (an organization of people or resources that can be shared)

line organisation; line organization (the organizational structure of activities contributing directly to the organization's output)

fire brigade; fire company (a private or temporary organization of individuals equipped to fight fires)

I.O.C.; International Olympic Committee; IOC (organization responsible for organizing the modern Olympic Games)

adhocracy (an organization with little or no structure)

affiliate (a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization)

bureaucracy (any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape)

NGO; nongovernmental organization (an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government)

Association of Orangemen; Orange Order (a Protestant political organization in Northern Ireland)

Tammany; Tammany Hall; Tammany Society (a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York City (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism)

fiefdom (an organization that is controlled by a dominant person or group)

association (a formal organization of people or groups of people)

company; troupe (organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical))

establishment (any large organization)

defence; defence force; defense; defense force (an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack)

enterprise (an organization created for business ventures)

establishment; institution (an organization founded and united for a specific purpose)

quango; quasi-NGO (a quasi nongovernmental organization; an organization that is financed by the government yet acts independently of the government)

polity (a politically organized unit)

line of defence; line of defense (any organization whose responsibility it is to defend against something)

Derivation:

organise (arrange by systematic planning and united effort)

organise (form or join a union)

organise (create (as an entity))

Sense 3

Meaning:

An organized structure for arranging or classifying

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

arrangement; organisation; organization; system

Context example:

he tried to understand their system of classification

Hypernyms ("organisation" is a kind of...):

structure (the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "organisation"):

lattice (an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions)

calendar (a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year)

ontology ((computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations)

living arrangement (an arrangement to allow people (or ideas) to coexist)

kinship system ((anthropology) the system of social relationships that constitute kinship in a particular culture, including the terminology that is used and the reciprocal obligations that are entailed)

genetic map (graphical representation of the arrangement of genes on a chromosome)

design; plan (an arrangement scheme)

distribution; statistical distribution ((statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence)

data structure ((computer science) the organization of data (and its storage allocations in a computer))

coordinate system; frame of reference; reference frame; reference system (a system that uses coordinates to establish position)

contrivance (an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.)

classification system (a system for classifying things)

Derivation:

organise (bring order and organization to)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

organisation; organization; system

Context example:

we can't do it unless we establish some system around here

Hypernyms ("organisation" is a kind of...):

methodicalness; orderliness (the quality of appreciating method and system)

Derivation:

organise (bring order and organization to)

organise (cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

organisation; organization

Context example:

he was brought in to supervise the organization of a new department

Hypernyms ("organisation" is a kind of...):

administration; disposal (a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "organisation"):

nonprofit; nonprofit organization; not-for-profit (an organization chartered for other than profit-making activities)

syndication (organizing into or administering as a syndicate)

self-organisation; self-organization (organizing yourself (especially organizing your own labor union))

reorganisation; reorganization; shake-up; shakeup (the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes))

rationalisation; rationalization (the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency)

Derivation:

organise (create (as an entity))

organise (cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea)

organise (plan and direct (a complex undertaking))

organise (bring order and organization to)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

organisation; organization

Context example:

his organization of the work force was very efficient

Hypernyms ("organisation" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "organisation"):

randomisation; randomization (a deliberately haphazard arrangement of observations so as to simulate chance)

rationalisation; rationalization; systematisation; systematization (systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale)

order; ordering (the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement)

itemisation; itemization; listing (the act of making a list of items)

territorialisation; territorialization (the act of organizing as a territory)

Derivation:

organise (bring order and organization to)

organise (plan and direct (a complex undertaking))

organise (cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The act of forming or establishing something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

constitution; establishment; formation; organisation; organization

Context example:

he still remembers the organization of the club

Hypernyms ("organisation" is a kind of...):

beginning; commencement; start (the act of starting something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "organisation"):

collectivisation; collectivization (the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism)

communisation; communization (the organization of a nation of the basis of communism)

federation (the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs)

colonisation; colonization; settlement (the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies)

unionisation; unionization (act of forming labor unions)

Derivation:

organise (form or join a union)

organise (create (as an entity))

organise (arrange by systematic planning and united effort)

 Context examples 

New research shows that all the cells in the plant coordinate partly through something called local self-organisation.

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)

The small number of nerve cells needed to count indicates that brain size is not as important as brain organisation, scientists claim.

(Scientists Discover Bees Can Count Using Only Four Brain Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This degree of organisation makes gastruloids a remarkable system for the study of the early stages of normal or abnormal embryonic development in mammals.

(Scientists develop mouse ‘embryo-like structures’ with organisation along body’s major axes, University of Cambridge)

Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), they showed that while our brain is still able to perceive sounds during sleep, it is unable to group these sounds according to their organisation in a sequence.

(Learning While Sleeping?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The International Union Against Cancer (UICC) is the only global cancer organisation with members and activities covering all aspects of cancer control.

(International Union Against Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

But neither the official police nor Holmes’s own small but very efficient organisation sufficed to clear away the mystery.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For some years the organisation flourished in spite of the efforts of the United States government and of the better classes of the community in the South.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the Museum of the Environment on Thursday (Oct 20), the minister received two boxes containing more than 800,000 signatures collected by Greenpeace and other organisations.

(Brazil to support South Atlantic whale sanctuary bid, Agência BRASIL)

It comes after record fires in the Brazilian Amazon last year burned around 1 million hectares of forest between July and September, according to official statistics, while environmental organisations put the figure at more than double that.

(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)

The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), a UN-based organisation, says the coronavirus pandemic is a hygiene crisis, and there is a clear link between water access and a community’s ability to contain the spread of the virus.

(Slightly dirty water ‘still ok’ against coronavirus, SciDev.Net)