organizationor‧gan‧i‧za‧tion (also organisation British English) /ˌɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən $ ˌɔːrɡənə-/ ●●● S2 W1 noun 
The public expect high standards from any large organization. the World Trade Organization a voluntary organization which helps disabled people with their transport needs an illegal terrorist organization international organizations such as the UN2[uncountable] planning and arranging something so that it is successful or effective: Putting on a show of this kind involves considerable organisation.organization of The college has helped Anne with the organization of the event.3[uncountable] the way in which the different parts of a system are arranged and work togetherorganization of There needs to be a change in the organization of the health service.—organizational adjective: organizational skillsTHESAURUSorganization a group of people, companies, or countries, which is set up for a particular purpose: · Greenpeace is an international organization that protects the environment.· the World Health Organizationinstitution a large important organization such as a bank, church, or university: · The University is an important academic institution.· financial institutions such as banksassociation an organization for people in a particular profession, sport, or activity, which officially represents its members – often used in names: · I met a representative of the National Association of Teachers.· the Football Associationparty an organization of people with the same political aims which you can vote for in elections: · Which political party do you support?· He voted for the Republican Party’s candidate.body an important group of people who make the rules and advise people about what should be allowed: · the sport’s governing body· The government has set up an advisory body.club/society an organization for people who share an interest, for example a sport: · We belong to a tennis club.· I joined the university film society.union an organization formed by workers in order to protect their rights: · The union ordered its members out on strike.charity an organization which collects money to help people who are poor, sick etc and does not make any profit for itself: · She has raised a lot of money for local charities.quango British English disapproving an organization set up by the government, which has official power but whose members have not been elected: · the amount of money that is wasted on government quangos
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a non-profit environmental organization
- Callihan's organization and leadership has been invaluable.
- Employees receive health care from a health maintenance organization (HMO).
- Greenpeace is an international organization that works to protect the environment.
- Most big organizations employ their own legal experts.
- one of Europe's leading human rights organizations
- the World Health Organization
- There are some good ideas here, but the essay lacks organization and clarity.
- And if there was organization and money, then there was design and planning.
- People feel out of touch with one another and with the organization.
- Publicity differs from the other promotional devices mentioned in this chapter in that it often does not cost the organization any money!
- The organization hopes to adopt the standard within a year.
- The person being called can tell us what he or she thinks or feels about our organization and what we offer.
THESAURUS
a group of people, companies, or countries, which is set up for a particular purpose: · Greenpeace is an international organization that protects the environment.· the World Health Organization
a large important organization such as a bank, church, or university: · The University is an important academic institution.· financial institutions such as banks
an organization for people in a particular profession, sport, or activity, which officially represents its members – often used in names: · I met a representative of the National Association of Teachers.· the Football Association
an organization of people with the same political aims which you can vote for in elections: · Which political party do you support?· He voted for the Republican Party’s candidate.
an important group of people who make the rules and advise people about what should be allowed: · the sport’s governing body· The government has set up an advisory body.
an organization for people who share an interest, for example a sport: · We belong to a tennis club.· I joined the university film society.
an organization formed by workers in order to protect their rights: · The union ordered its members out on strike.
an organization which collects money to help people who are poor, sick etc and does not make any profit for itself: · She has raised a lot of money for local charities.
British English disapproving an organization set up by the government, which has official power but whose members have not been elected: · the amount of money that is wasted on government quangos
Longman Language Activatora large well organized group of people who work together also organisation British a large group of people who work together in business, politics, education, sport etc: · Greenpeace is an international organization that works to protect the environment.· one of Europe's leading human rights organizations· Most big organizations employ their own legal experts.· the World Health Organization
an organization that does educational, scientific, or financial work, especially a large and important organization that has existed for a long time: financial/educational/medical institution: · The change in the law has been welcomed by banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions.· A major study of women and heart disease is being carried out by the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution.
an educational, scientific, or professional organization: · My colleague is a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.· the National Cancer Institute· The work was carried out by the Silsoe Research Institute in Bedfordshire.
an official organization that has political aims or responsibilities an organization of people who all have the same political ideas, which you can vote for in elections: · The Republican Party now has a majority in Congress.political party: · All the major political parties have given their support to this initiative.join a party: · He first joined the Communist party when he was a student.party member: · All party members will have the right to vote for the new leader.
an official organization, or a local government department, which has power in public affairs, provides public services etc: · The number of complaints received by the Police Complaints Authority has risen sharply in recent years.health authority British: · Contact your local health authority for details of the scheme in your area.
an official organization responsible for the public services in a town or area, or a large organization which represents particular people: · A complaints system is being set up to make it easier for residents to complain about the service that the council offers.· The club got a grant from the Sports Council to help pay for new changing rooms.town/city/county council: · She's been elected onto the city council.· The plan for the new housing development is now being considered by Essex County Council.
American a government department with particular responsibilities: · the Federal Bureau of Investigations· He is now Director of the Maritime Transport Bureau.
any organization made up of people working together, especially in government, making laws or advising people: governing body: · UEFA is the governing body for European football.advisory body: · Belfast City Airport Forum is a new advisory body set up to discuss environmental issues affecting the airport and the surrounding area.
an organization that gives help or advice an organization which raises money in order to help people who are poor, ill etc, and does not make any profit for itself: · All the major charities are appealing for funds to help the victims of the disaster.· My mother does a lot of fund raising for local charities.
an organization that collects money and uses it to help people or do some other good work: · New York's Inner City Scholarship Fund pays the college fees of students from poorer families.· All the money raised will be donated to the Cancer Research Fund.
British an organization that receives money which it then uses to help people or do some other good work: · A new trust has been set up to promote the arts in inner city areas.· The Mental Health Trust works to raise awareness of mental illness and help people suffering from mental problems.
an organization for people who have the same interests or aims a group of people who meet regularly to do something that they are all interested in, for example a particular activity or sport: · They've set up a chess club at school.· the North Manchester Judo Clubjoin a club: · Why don't you join your local swimming club if you're keen on swimming?belong to a club (=be a member of a club): · They both belong to the local tennis club.
an organization for people who have the same interest or aim, especially a large official organization: · He joined the university film society as a way of making friends.· the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds· the president of the American Historical Society
an important organization for people in a particular profession, activity, sport etc, which officially represents its members and has the power to make rules: · The new health care proposals have been criticized by the British Medical Association.· The National Basketball Association negotiates TV rights for important games.association of: · the National Association of Head Teachers
an organization formed by workers to protect their rights and improve their pay and working conditions: · The largest teachers' union supports the education reforms.union of: · the National Union of Mineworkers.trade union British: labor union American: · The President could not rely on the support of the labor unions.join a union: · Some workers refused to join the union.
an organization consisting of people, countries, or groups that have joined together because they have the same aim: · The League of Nations was formed to promote international peace and security.· Morocco is a member of the Arab League.· Leaders of the Football League met to discuss the problems of violence at football games.
a group of separate organizations or clubs which have joined together to help and support each other: · He is now chairman of the British Olympic Federation.· Her case was supported by the Chicago Teachers Federation.federation of: · the National Federation of Master Builders
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY international organizations such as the UNCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a hierarchical society
international organizations such as the UN· Many commercial companies are having financial difficulties.
a hierarchical society· Relief agencies reported that many of the refugees had arrived in a terrible condition.
· No terrorist group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
· The day care scheme was run by a voluntary organization.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· What he saw was a new form of human organization emerging amid the chaos of breakdown in the feudalistic order.· This is clear in the sense that applied technique includes the human organization or system that sets equipment to work.
· In their view, corporate strategies fail because they consider problems in the external environment but not those internal to the organization.· State conjunctural policies respond, similarly, to variations in the strategies and internal organization of the dominant class.· The internal organization of state policy-making has tended to reflect the lines of cleavage within dominant economic groups of civil society.· In comparison, internal organization is a more attractive way of administering such transactions.· A further organizational trend under way in the tourist industry concerns an aspect of the internal organization of travel firms themselves.· Arbiter theorists also recognize that liberal democratic states vary greatly in their internal organization between federal and unitary forms.· This orientation to the political sphere conditions internal management organization and culture.· If the scale of the society is a natural first question, the next is certainly its internal organization.
· While flying home I sat next to a senior executive with a large international organization.· An East Berlin section of the international environmental organization, Greenpeace, was founded in February.· There is no way to win world socialism except through revolutionary mass parties fraternally associated in an international organization.· Now and then an international organization can stigmatize some element or other.· To coordinate this work, the existing nuclei of these parties must be brought together in an international organization.
· A colleague and I are currently involved in considering major changes in a very large organization.· To get anything significant done within a large organization, every entrepreneur needs an informal network of allies.· The skills and expertise required to manage or advise them are in many respects different to those required in a large organization.· The train itself was much more closely tied to the larger organization.· In the large organization, even the risks associated with the selection of leadership are reduced.· If you work in a large organization, ask whether the human resources department offers this service.· They had many ties in the larger organization, friends and past coworkers from whom they could seek support and companionship.· While flying home I sat next to a senior executive with a large international organization.
· This called for the withdrawal of the National Executive memorandum abolishing the League's national organization.· My connection to a politically active national organization had strengthened my hand immeasurably.· There were many difficulties, but there is no doubting that Labour's national organization began to improve.· They stick to the three cardinal investment principles set down by the national organization: &.· I heard him talk last week to the Houston branch of a national organization, the Planning Forum.· Another very important, but very different, family service is provided by the Family Service Units, a national organization.· Inside a decade it grew into a national organization with an affluent governing board and a Washington lobbying of lice.
· What we need is not some new kind of organization.· Teamwork and cooperation will be the basis for creating value in the new organization.· After the Civil War, the Bolshevik party had recreated itself in response to events; it was virtually a new organization.· Methods of compensation will change drastically in the new organization.· Hence Trevelyan's invitation to MacDonald to chair the new organization.· In all these senses, the new organization retained most of the features of the organization that had just been abandoned.· In the new organization, the flow of information will change drastically.· And in the newer and flatter organization where there is little opportunity for promotion, how does an enterprising employee advance?
· The group interviewed 14 elderly homeowners who approached the nonprofit organization for help with loans.· Sportsbridge, a new nonprofit organization designed to promote athleticism for women, had brought the pair together.· The new foundation is registered with the state as a tax-exempt religious corporation instead of a nonprofit organization for public benefit.· For 15 years, I have worked for a nonprofit civil-rights organization that regularly enjoys the co-counsel support of major law firms.· The nonprofit organization based in Woodland, near Sacramento, is critical of education technology.· Mediascope, a nonprofit organization that promotes social and health issues, published a nationwide study of media violence.
· Economic and political organization in the late twentieth century is more centralized than that.· Do you belong to a political organization?· They bequeathed an invaluable legacy of moral integrity, revolutionary thought and political organization on which their Bolshevik heirs were to draw.· Freedom of political organization is more formal than real, and corruption is widespread throughout the whole political system.· It dramatized the challenge of trying to pose as a progressive leader while maintaining a profiteering, corrupt political organization.
· This is the size of many hunter-gatherer bands, the social organization in which mankind has existed throughout most of its history.· No one can say that implacable biology ordains failure, that gay social organization is fixed, promiscuous, and doomed.· They are much less helpful, however, in a search for the source and significance of our social organization.· All have similarities in settlement pattern and in social organization, with unilineal descent systems and chiefdom organization.· Their argument depends on a notion of society as a system which is dominated by particular forms of social and economic organization.· Instead, it seemed that the nature of social organization in the villages was critical.· At first, social organization is limited to the family, it is therefore dominated by kinship, and property is communal.· This contains a much lengthier and more important consideration of tribal social organization, as well as of classical and oriental societies.
NOUN· But then it is characteristic of this latest phase that the professional society is primarily a business organization.· It is a form of business organization wherein two or more individuals agree to own and operate a business.· But the existing business organization has a great many middle-management positions that are supposed to prepare and test a person.· The emerging shape-shifting business organization remains intensely ambiguous.· What are the implications for a business organization of adopting the marketing concept? 2.· The percentage of sales method is commonly used to determine the future external financing requirements of a growing business organization.· The debtor must be an individual, but this includes a partnership and a business organization which is not entirely incorporated.· The logic of business organization developed in the industrial age emphasized the virtues of increasing size.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► an affiliated organization/club/member etc
- The site now employs about 7,000 people directly, although many more are involved in allied industries or in ongoing construction projects.
- The books give all the insider know-how for staying and getting around a country on a shoestring budget.
- About 130 professional and human-rights groups are folded into Concilio Cubano, a rickety umbrella group set up last year.
- Inpeg, the Czech environmentalist umbrella group that organised the protests, refused to condemn Molotov cocktails being thrown at police.
- La Raza is an umbrella group of almost 200 Hispanic advocacy groups.
- The umbrella group we'd formed in 1987 had fallen into abeyance, but the name still meant something.
- All voluntary agencies funded by the Department of Social Work must also now operate a complaints procedure.
- Do you belong to a voluntary organization?
- Local authorities or voluntary agencies should have provided the information, the association said.
- Many of the statutory and voluntary agencies provide advice without charge.
- The list of all the voluntary agencies concerned directly or indirectly with family welfare would be too long to provide here.
- The main voluntary agency dealing with literacy is Marxist.
- Think of your church, your synagogue, your voluntary organization.
- Under the initiative, voluntary agencies have received grants totalling £150,000.
WORD FAMILYnounorganization ≠ disorganizationreorganizationorganizeradjectiveorganizationalorganized ≠ disorganizedverborganize ≠ disorganizereorganize
1[countable] a group such as a club or business that has formed for a particular purpose: The public expect high standards from any large organization. the World Trade Organization a voluntary organization which helps disabled people with their transport needs an illegal terrorist organization international organizations such as the UN2[uncountable] planning and arranging something so that it is successful or effective: Putting on a show of this kind involves considerable organisation.organization of The college has helped Anne with the organization of the event.3[uncountable] the way in which the different parts of a system are arranged and work togetherorganization of There needs to be a change in the organization of the health service.—organizational adjective: organizational skillsTHESAURUSorganization a group of people, companies, or countries, which is set up for a particular purpose: · Greenpeace is an international organization that protects the environment.· the World Health Organizationinstitution a large important organization such as a bank, church, or university: · The University is an important academic institution.· financial institutions such as banksassociation an organization for people in a particular profession, sport, or activity, which officially represents its members – often used in names: · I met a representative of the National Association of Teachers.· the Football Associationparty an organization of people with the same political aims which you can vote for in elections: · Which political party do you support?· He voted for the Republican Party’s candidate.body an important group of people who make the rules and advise people about what should be allowed: · the sport’s governing body· The government has set up an advisory body.club/society an organization for people who share an interest, for example a sport: · We belong to a tennis club.· I joined the university film society.union an organization formed by workers in order to protect their rights: · The union ordered its members out on strike.charity an organization which collects money to help people who are poor, sick etc and does not make any profit for itself: · She has raised a lot of money for local charities.quango British English disapproving an organization set up by the government, which has official power but whose members have not been elected: · the amount of money that is wasted on government quangos