organisation

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	organisation - the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering 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" governance, governing body, administration, brass, establishment, organization body - a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body" authorities, government, regime - the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit; "the government reduced taxes"; "the matter was referred to higher authorities" Curia - (Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church top brass - the most important persons in a governing body executive - persons who administer the law judiciary, bench - persons who administer justice county council - the elected governing body of a county government officials, officialdom - people elected or appointed to administer a government pecking order, power structure, hierarchy - the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body management - those in charge of running a business advisory board, planning board - a board appointed to advise the chief administrator
	2.	organisation - a group of people who work together organization social group - people sharing some social relation adhocracy - an organization with little or no structure; "the choice between bureaucracy and adhocracy represents a common dilemma"; "the need for informational flexibility can lead to adhocracy" affiliate - a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization; "network affiliates" bureaucracy - any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape NGO, nongovernmental organization - an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government Tammany, Tammany Hall, Tammany Society - a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York City (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism fiefdom - an organization that is controlled by a dominant person or group line of defence, line of defense - any organization whose responsibility it is to defend against something; "police are the major line of defense against crime" line organisation, line organization - the organizational structure of activities contributing directly to the organization's output association - a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association" polity - a politically organized unit quango, quasi-NGO - a quasi nongovernmental organization; an organization that is financed by the government yet acts independently of the government institution, establishment - an organization founded and united for a specific purpose enterprise - an organization created for business ventures; "a growing enterprise must have a bold leader" defence force, defense force, defence, defense - an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack; "he joined the defense against invasion" establishment - any large organization fire brigade, fire company - a private or temporary organization of individuals equipped to fight fires troupe, company - organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical); "the traveling company all stayed at the same hotel" social unit, unit - an organization regarded as part of a larger social group; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit" Peace Corps - a civilian organization sponsored by the United States government; helps people in developing countries personnel, force - group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens" labor union, trade union, trades union, union, brotherhood - an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" musical group, musical organisation, musical organization - an organization of musicians who perform together party, political party - an organization to gain political power; "in 1992 Perot tried to organize a third party at the national level" political machine, machine - a group that controls the activities of a political party; "he was endorsed by the Democratic machine" machine - an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently; "the war machine" professional organisation, professional organization - an organization of and for professional people alignment, alinement, coalition, alliance - an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty federation - an organization formed by merging several groups or parties quorum - a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business pecking order, power structure, hierarchy - the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body membership, rank - the body of members of an organization or group; "they polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed" delegation, deputation, delegacy, commission, mission - a group of representatives or delegates
	3.	organisation - 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" organization, arrangement, system structure - the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations; "his lectures have no structure" classification system - a system for classifying things contrivance - an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.; "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable" coordinate system, frame of reference, reference frame, reference system - a system that uses coordinates to establish position data structure - (computer science) the organization of data (and its storage allocations in a computer) design, plan - an arrangement scheme; "the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for living"; "a plan for seating guests" distribution, statistical distribution - (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence genetic map - graphical representation of the arrangement of genes on a chromosome kinship system - (anthropology) the system of social relationships that constitute kinship in a particular culture, including the terminology that is used and the reciprocal obligations that are entailed lattice - an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions living arrangement - an arrangement to allow people (or ideas) to coexist ontology - (computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations calendar - a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year
	4.	organisation - 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" organization, system methodicalness, orderliness - the quality of appreciating method and system
	5.	organisation - the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business; "he was brought in to supervise the organization of a new department" organization administration, disposal - a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs) nonprofit, nonprofit organization, not-for-profit - an organization chartered for other than profit-making activities rationalisation, rationalization - the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency reorganisation, reorganization, shake-up, shakeup - the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes); "a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum"; "top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup" self-organisation, self-organization - organizing yourself (especially organizing your own labor union) syndication - organizing into or administering as a syndicate
	6.	organisation - the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically; "his organization of the work force was very efficient" organization activity - any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity" randomisation, randomization - a deliberately haphazard arrangement of observations so as to simulate chance systematisation, systematization, rationalisation, rationalization - systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale ordering, order - the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement; "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list" itemisation, itemization, listing - the act of making a list of items territorialisation, territorialization - the act of organizing as a territory
	7.	organisation - the act of forming or establishing something; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation"; "he still remembers the organization of the club" establishment, constitution, formation, organization commencement, start, beginning - the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations" unionisation, unionization - act of forming labor unions; "the issue underlying the strike was unionization" collectivisation, collectivization - the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism communisation, communization - the organization of a nation of the basis of communism federation - the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs colonisation, colonization, settlement - the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America"