D defs.my
Entry 5 senses Webster, 1913

Organization

/(ôr`gan*ī*zā"shŭn)/ · Or·gan·i·za·tion · IPA /ˌɔɹ.ɡə.nɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
01 n. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.
  1. 1.
    The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.
  2. 2.
    The state of being organized.
  3. 3.
    That which is organized; an organized existence; an organism(Biol.)
    “The cell may be regarded as the most simple, the most common, and the earliest form of organization.” — McKendrick.
  4. 4.
    A group of persons associated together for a common purpose and having a set of rules which specify the relations of the individual members to the whole gorup.
  5. 5.
    The manner in which something is organized; the relations included in an organized state or condition; as, the organization of the department permits ad hoc groups to form.
    “What is organization but the connection of parts in and for a whole, so that each part is, at once, end and means?” Coleridge.