organisation

Noun organisation has 7 senses

• organisation(n = noun.group) administration, brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organization - 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"
is a kind of body
is a part of authorities, government, regime
has particulars: curia, top brass, executive, bench, judiciary, county council, government officials, officialdom, management
has parts: hierarchy, pecking order, power structure
Derived forms verb organise₆, verb organise₄, verb organise₂

• organisation(n = noun.group) organization - a group of people who work together;
is a kind of social group
has particulars: adhocracy, affiliate, bureaucracy, ngo, nongovernmental organization, tammany, tammany hall, tammany society, fiefdom, line of defence, line of defense, line organisation, line organization, association, polity, quango, quasi-ngo, establishment, institution, enterprise, defence, defence force, defense, defense force, establishment, fire brigade, fire company, company, troupe, social unit, unit, peace corps, force, personnel, brotherhood, labor union, trade union, trades union, union, musical group, musical organisation, musical organization, party, political party, machine, political machine, machine, professional organisation, professional organization, alignment, alinement, alliance, coalition, federation, hierarchy, pecking order, power structure, commission, delegacy, delegation, deputation, mission, girl scouts, blue, gray, grey, host, pool, association of orangemen, orange order
Derived forms verb organise₅, verb organise₃, verb organise₂

• organisation(n = noun.cognition) arrangement, organization, system - 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"
is a kind of structure
has particulars: classification system, contrivance, coordinate system, frame of reference, reference frame, reference system, data structure, design, plan, distribution, statistical distribution, genetic map, kinship system, lattice, living arrangement, ontology, calendar
Derived form verb organise₁

• organisation(n = noun.attribute) organization, system - 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"
is a kind of methodicalness, orderliness
Derived forms verb organise₁, verb organise₄

• organisation(n = noun.act) organization - 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"
is a kind of administration, disposal
has particulars: nonprofit, nonprofit organization, not-for-profit, rationalisation, rationalization, reorganisation, reorganization, shake-up, shakeup, self-organisation, self-organization, syndication
Derived forms verb organise₁, verb organise₆, verb organise₄, verb organise₂

• organisation(n = noun.act) organization - the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically; "his organization of the work force was very efficient"
is a kind of activity
has particulars: randomisation, randomization, rationalisation, rationalization, systematisation, systematization, order, ordering, itemisation, itemization, listing, territorialisation, territorialization
Derived forms verb organise₁, verb organise₆, verb organise₄

• organisation(n = noun.act) constitution, establishment, formation, organization - 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"
is a kind of beginning, commencement, start
has particulars: unionisation, unionization, collectivisation, collectivization, communisation, communization, federation, colonisation, colonization, settlement
Derived forms verb organise₅, verb organise₃, verb organise₂