Meaning

(uncountable) The quality of being organized..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The quality of being organized.
2. (uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
3. (countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
4. (countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.
5. (baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.

Example Sentences

This painting shows little organization at first glance, but little by little the structure becomes clear.

The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.

The organization of the book is as follows.

In response to the crisis, the nations in the region formed an organization. If you want to be part of this organization, you have to follow its rules.

Over time, the spontaneous movement had become an organization.

He's been in the Dodgers' organization since 2003.

Word Forms

• organizations
• organisation

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Use organization when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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