organization

Meaning

Noun

• The quality of being organized.
• The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
• A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
• A group of people consciously cooperating.
• A major league club and all its farm teams.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• church
• company
• corporation
• firm
• institute
• institution
• hospital
• labor union
• political party
• school
• trade union
• university

Origin

• From Middle French organisation.
• Morphologically organize + -ation