organization
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(noun) the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically; "in this new organization the container is much smaller" |
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Synonyms: arrangement, organisation |
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Related Words: activity, itemisation, itemization, listing, orchestration, order, ordering, randomisation, randomization, rationalisation, rationalization, rearrangement, systematisation, systematization, territorialisation, territorialization |
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(noun) the act of organizing a business or business-related activity; "he was brought in to supervise the organization of a new department" |
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Synonyms: organisation |
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Related Words: administration, disposal, reorganisation, reorganization, self-organisation, self-organization, shake-up, syndication |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: organisation, system |
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Related Words: methodicalness, orderliness |
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(noun) a group of people who work together |
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Synonyms: organisation |
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Related Words: AA, Alcoholics Anonymous, Irish Republican Army, Peace Corps, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Tammany, Tammany Hall, Tammany Society, alignment, alinement, alliance, association, blue, brotherhood, citizens committee, coalition, commission, committee, company, defence, defense, delegacy, delegation, denomination, deputation, enterprise, establishment, federation, fire brigade, fire company, force, foreign mission, gray, grey, hierarchy, host, institution, labor union, line of defense, line organization, machine, mission, missionary post, missionary station, musical group, musical organization, party, pecking order, personnel, political machine, political party, polity, pool, power structure, social group, social unit, trade union, trades union, troupe, union, unit |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: arrangement, organisation, system |
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Related Words: calendar, classification system, contrivance, coordinate system, data structure, design, distribution, frame of reference, lattice, living arrangement, plan, reference frame, reference system, structure |
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(noun) the act of forming something; "the constitution of a PTA group"; "he still remembers the establishment of the hospital" |
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Synonyms: constitution, establishment, formation, organisation |
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Related Words: beginning, colonisation, colonization, commencement, settlement, start, unionisation, unionization |
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(noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a governing body and who administer 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" |
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Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governance, organisation |
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Related Words: bench, body, executive, government officials, judiciary, management, officialdom |
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