organizationn.
/ˌɔːɡənʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌɔːɡn̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌɔrɡənəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌɔrɡəˌnaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. † b. concrete. An organized structure; a body; an organism. Obsolete.
a. Chiefly Biology. The development or coordination of parts (of the body, a body system, cell, etc.) in order to carry out vital functions; the condition of being or process of becoming organized (organized adj. 1). Also: the way in which a living thing is organized; the structure of (any part of) an organism.
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the world > life > biology > organism > [noun] > condition of being
organization?a1425
organity1642
organicalness1675
autonomy1849
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue
organization?a1425
carnification1740
transformation1834
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 48v (MED) Varicose, which is a new name, is said organizacioun of veynez in ham out of kynde.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 213 The body of man was..so proporcionate to the sawle that equalite of complexion was in hit, conformite of organizacion [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. a cordyne of temes; L. organizationis conformitas].
a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1926) I. 98 The concepcioune of the persoune may be tane for the formaccioune and organizacioune of the body.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 82 The several wayes and Organization of the Body [are] inscrutable.
1694 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) ii. xxvii. 179 That being then one Plant, which has such an Organization of Parts in one coherent Body.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Organization, a forming of Organs or Instrumental Parts.
1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 7 Their curious crystallization bears some resemblance to organization, but performs none of its functions.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 904 Only in a few plants of low organisation does a fertile union take place between sister-cells.
1974 J. B. Finean et al. Membranes & Cellular Functions i. 9 The integrity of the isolated cells is assessed by their ability to exclude dyes such as eosin or trypan blue and to catalyse metabolic pathways which require a high degree of cellular organization.
1991 L. Wolpert Triumph of Embryo (BNC) i. 1 This embryonic development presents a fundamental problem of biological organization.
2003 Life Sci. 74 207 The ephrins and their receptors regulate cell movement that is essential for forming and stabilizing the spatial organization of tissues and cell types.
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the world > life > biology > organism > [noun]
structure1683
organization1707
individual1746
series1748
organism1834
macroorganism1941
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 27 The Contexture of Plants; whose structure is an Organization compos'd of Fibres.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 356 In the worst formed bodies and most untoward organizations, there lies an immortal spirit.
1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 24 Mar. 513/1 I must stuff into my delicate organisation, a currant pincushion which I know will swell into immeasurable dimensions when it has got there.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxiii. 97 Choice organisations—natures framed to love perfection.
c. Medicine. Conversion into fibrous tissue.
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1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 326 A thrombus which is undergoing a process of organization gradually diminishes in size,..and ultimately it becomes converted into a fibro-cellular cord.
1961 R. D. Baker Essent. Pathol. v. 82 Fibroblasts and capillaries grow into thrombi from the vessel wall and effect fibro blastic repair (organization).
1984 J. R. Tighe & D. R. Davies Pathol. (ed. 4) vii. 48 If the thrombus is not dissolved, then organization will occur.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > singing of organum
organization1782
organizing1880
1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 135 There can be no doubt but that some instrument had been used in the singing schools to teach this organization.
1880 W. S. Rockstro in Grove's Dict. Music II. 609 Hucbaldus,..who died..in the year 930,..prefers no claim to be regarded as the orginator of the new method of Singing, but speaks of it as a practice ‘which they commonly call organization’.
3.
a. The condition of being organized; systematic ordering or arrangement; spec. the way in which particular activities or institutions are organized. Frequently in social organization.
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the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > quality of being systematic > systematic arrangement
ordination?a1425
structure1587
syntax1605
system1699
organism1701
classification1767
organization1790
systematization1838
society > society and the community > [noun] > an organized social structure
body politic1596
structure1660
social organization1829
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 30 They acted by the ancient organized states in the shape of their old organization, and not by the organic moleculæ of a disbanded people. View more context for this quotation
1829 J. S. Mill Let. 7 Nov. in Wks. (1963) XII. 40 Several great steps should be taken in the improvement of the social organisation.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 129 Compensated by a great superiority of intelligence, vigour, and organization.
1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 257 The organization of the Clearing House will be described in the next chapter.
1908 G. K. Chesterton Man who was Thursday 39 You, my poor fellow, are an anarchist deprived of the help of that law and organization which is so essential to anarchy.
1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory xii. 225 Most important of all..is Radcliffe-Brown's contribution to Australian social organization.
1944 Mind 53 352 Social organisation should be designed to encourage change in desirable directions.
1952 H. H. Gerth & D. A. Martindale tr. M. Weber Anc. Judaism i. i. 15 In Israelite antiquity, social organization is usually articulated in terms of father houses.
1988 A. Lively Blue Fruit 17 He explained to me in detail the organization of the railroad company.
1995 J. Shreeve Neandertal Enigma (1996) vi. 165 Other clues to Neandertal socioeconomics—the small site sizes, the lack of organization, the exceedingly low population densities [etc.].
b. The action or process of organizing, ordering, or putting into systematic form; the arrangement and coordination of parts into a systematic whole; spec. the action of banding together or gathering support for a political cause.
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the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > putting in order > giving orderly structure to something
organizing1599
formalizationa1641
ordination1703
organization1801
regimentation1870
structuring1890
structurization1925
1801 W. Dupré Lexicographia-neologica Gallica 243 France, on her first organization, became a constitutional monarchy.
1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris xvi. 317 In the organization of forms, Reubens was a most extraordinary being.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 131 To gain strength..by self-dependence and internal organization.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 364 The organisation of a service of transport was then proceeded with.
1952 A. Bullock Hitler iii. 139 The support the Nazis received from the rural districts of Germany richly repaid the work of propaganda and organization they began to undertake there in 1930.
1988 F. Weldon Leader of Band iv. 27 Let the spies report back any sign of real unrest, of organisation, and the iron hand descends.
1989 B. H. Kerblay Gorbachev's Russia i. 20 The shortcomings of the organization of the economy into sectors..had produced a compartmentalization of activities into a profusion of fiefs and ministries.
c. Organization and Methods: the study of the efficiency of working practices. Frequently attributive: designating a person or group engaged in such study.
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society > occupation and work > study of work > [noun] > of efficiency of working practices
Organization and Methods1959
society > occupation and work > study of work > [adjective] > of efficiency of working practices
Organization and Methods1959
1959 Listener 10 Dec. 1020/1 Organization and Methods may indeed prove that the central principles of local government are irrational.
1963 Listener 28 Feb. 389/2 The Old English state was a ramshackle..affair, lying in 1066 wide open to a take-over bid from William the Conqueror and certain to benefit both spiritually and materially from the brisk and ruthless operations of his Organization-and-Methods men.
1971 K. Gottschalk in B. de Ferranti Living with Computer v. 46 Groups concerned with efficiency in the office are sometimes called organization and methods (O & M) groups.
1990 World Outside: Career Guide 115/1 After Organisation and Methods came management in a large line department. That was followed by four years of responsibility for the development of new products.
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a. An organized body of people with a particular purpose, as a business, government department, charity, etc.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > [noun]
fellowshipa1400
society1548
borrow1581
combination1597
guild1630
sodality1633
associationa1658
band-society1742
organization1793
Assn.1859
soc.1890
teleocracy1921
org1936
1793 D. Ramsay Hist. Amer. Revolution (new ed.) i. p. vi (advt.) Some of these additions we have ourselves received, as in the case of the words ‘organize, and organization’, when applied to political bodies.
1876 N. Amer. Rev. July 130 The Federalist party was a very remarkable political organization.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. liv. 169 This vast organisation had apparently sprung out of the ground.
1909 Municipal Jrnl. 29 Oct. 896/2 A change in the Executive Offices of such an organization as the N.A.L.G.O. is always a matter of concern.
1957 C. Smith Case of Torches i. 6 It was the kind of job that..set me apart from the rest of the organization.
1994 Population Stud. 48 540 Middle-class women ran charitable organizations, which promoted..courses in mothercraft and infant care.
b. Originally U.S. The body of officials directing the affairs of a political party, union, or similar body.
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1873 Republic 1 3 The Republican organization had become effete and corrupt.
1904 Booklovers Mag. Oct. 439 Editors are called in frequent consultation so as to be in close touch with the organization.
1923 J. D. Hackett Labor Terms in Managem. Engin. May Check-off System, a system whereby initiation fees, fines, and dues of union employees are deducted from their wages by the employer and periodically remitted to the district union organization.
1992 D. Morgan Rising in West iii. xiv. 246 The local Kern County Republican organization had been slow to exploit the disaffection of the Truman Democrats.
Compounds
organization centre n. [after German Organisationszentrum (H. Spemann 1921, in Arch. f. Entwicklungsmech. der Organismen 48 568)] Embryology = organizer n. 4.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > embryo or fetus > embryo parts > [noun] > regions
segment1826
lateral plate1859
protovertebra1869
mesomere1902
organizator1924
organizer1925
field1927
organization centre1928
inductor1929
1927 H. Spemann in Proc. Royal Soc. B. 102 180 The region of the early gastrula where these organizers lie may be called for the present a ‘centre of organization’.]
1928 Biol. Abstr. 2 1320/2 Experiments..confirm the assumption that the organization centers are localized in the 2 cell stage.
1935 Discovery May 136/2 If..an organisation centre is grafted out of its usual place..it will cause these new surroundings to develop into a complete embryo or complete organ.
1973 Adv. Morphogenesis 10 1 (title) The organization center of the amphibian embryo: its origin, spatial organization, and morphogenetic action.
organization chart n. a graphic representation of the structure of an organization showing the relationships of the positions or jobs within it.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > chart showing structure of company
organization chart1904
organigram1959
1904 System Apr. 265 The Organization Chart shows..the entire personnel of an organization above the ordinary labor employed.
1941 P. E. Holden et al. Top-managem. Organization 5 A good organization chart for the company as a whole, with auxiliary charts for each major division, is an essential first step in the analysis, clarification, and understanding of any organization plan.
2001 National Post (Canada) 12 June m3/1 The CIO, or chief information officer, started to appear on organization charts in the early 1980s.
organization man n. originally U.S. a man who subordinates his individuality and his personal life to the organization for which he works (cf. company man n. at company n. Compounds 4a).
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society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > subordinating personal life
company man1873
subbotnik1920
organization man1956
org-man1961
corporate man1971
1956 W. H. Whyte (title) The organization man.
1958 J. K. Galbraith Affluent Society xviii. 208 Our liberties are now menaced by the conformity exacted by the large corporation and its impulse to create..the organization man.
1995 Smithsonian Apr. 132/2 Today's Organization Man has shed his gray-flannel suit for a coat of many colors.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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