Definitions

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  • noun Alternative spelling of organization.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically
  • noun an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized
  • noun a group of people who work together
  • noun the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business
  • noun an organized structure for arranging or classifying
  • noun the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
  • noun the act of forming or establishing something

Etymologies

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organise +‎ -ation

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Examples

  • Under the EU, such freedoms would be destroyed because that self serving, elitist gravy train organisation is fundamentally undemocratic and has no intention of ever becoming democratic.

    Black Issues or White Guilt Newmania 2007

  • In fact the organisation is the little known "Trotskyist cult called Socialist Action" (see Nick Cohen's article).

    Archive 2008-01-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • It need not be doubted that this organisation is aimed at the West and that the umbrella that it might in future provide to states such as Iran, but doubtless in future to other rogue and failed states as well is one which must be viewed as being born of hostility to us.

    Archive 2007-08-12 2007

  • It need not be doubted that this organisation is aimed at the West and that the umbrella that it might in future provide to states such as Iran, but doubtless in future to other rogue and failed states as well is one which must be viewed as being born of hostility to us.

    A Hostile Bear 2007

  • The most important cog in the organisation is the people, if you can keep the majority happy then they are productive and everything else will fall into place.

    There Is No Plan B « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006

  • This organisation is also responsible for the challenging tasks of defining clinical guidelines and assessing the value of innovative therapies for reimbursement purposes.

    A Canadian Technology Success Story Cancer Therapy: From Concept to Commonplace 2000

  • The story of the operations of this organisation is a grim one, and it would be tedious, as well as harrowing, to attempt to tell it in any detail.

    The Cyprus Question 1958

  • In March this year, 51 citizens 'groups and individuals from all six Mekong countries challenged the MRC to deal with what they called the organisation's "crisis of legitimacy and relevancy, recently exemplified by its failure to respond to civil society concerns over plans to dam the lower Mekong mainstream".

    IPS Inter Press Service 2008

  • In March this year, 51 citizens 'groups and individuals from all six Mekong countries challenged the MRC to deal with what they called the organisation's "crisis of legitimacy and relevancy, recently exemplified by its failure to respond to civil society concerns over plans to dam the lower Mekong mainstream".

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed 2008

  • His organisation is only still at large and thriving and hiving off splinter groups and tribute bands right and left.

    Matthew Yglesias » Remember That Time When Bush Killed Osama? 2009

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