organization
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
organization /ɔːɡənʌɪˈzeɪʃn/ (or organisation)
▶noun
- 1 the action of organizing.
■ systematic arrangement of elements.
■ a systematic approach to tasks.
- 2 an organized group of people with a particular purpose, such as a business or government department.
– derivatives
organizational adjective,
organizationally adverb.
organizational adjective,
organizationally adverb.
'organization' also found in these Oxford entries:
academy
- account
- address
- adhocracy
- administer
- administration
- affiliate
- agency
- airline
- ally
- amalgamate
- anarchism
- ancillary
- annual general meeting
- apparatchik
- apparatus
- architecture
- arch-rival
- arm
- associate
- attachment
- audit
- authority
- backbone
- ballot
- banana
- bank
- benevolent
- Big Brother
- Bircher
- Black Panther
- blackshirt
- bloodletting
- board
- boosterism
- boss
- branch
- brigade
- brother
- building society
- bundobust
- BUPA
- business
- cadre
- call centre
- capital
- captive
- career
- carpetbagger
- caucus
