organisation
n 1: 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" [syn: {administration}, {governance},
{establishment}, {brass}, {organization}]
2: a group of people who work together [syn: {organization}]
3: 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" [syn: {arrangement}, {organization}, {system}]
4: 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" [syn: {organization}, {system}]
5: the act of organizing a business or business-related
activity; "he was brought in to supervise the organization
of a new department" [syn: {organization}]
6: the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons
or things properly or methodically; "in this new
organization the container is much smaller" [syn: {organization},
{arrangement}]
7: the act of forming something; "the constitution of a PTA
group"; "he still remembers the establishment of the
hospital" [syn: {constitution}, {establishment}, {formation},
{organization}]