Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Organization \Or`gan*i*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F. organisation.]
   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. ``The first
      organization of the general government.'' --Pickering.

   2. The state of being organized; also, the relations included
      in such a state or condition.

            What is organization but the connection of parts in
            and for a whole, so that each part is, at once, end
            and means?                            --Coleridge.

   3. That which is organized; an organized existence; an
      organism; specif. (Biol.), an arrangement of parts for the
      performance of the functions necessary to life.

            The cell may be regarded as the most simple, the
            most common, and the earliest form of organization.
                                                  --McKendrick.

Source : WordNet®

organization
     n 1: a group of people who work together [syn: {organisation}]
     2: 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}, {organisation}, {system}]
     3: 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" [syn: {administration}, {governance}, {governing
        body}, {establishment}, {brass}, {organisation}]
     4: the act of forming something; "the constitution of a PTA
        group last year"; "it was the establishment of his
        reputation"; "he still remembers the organization of the
        club" [syn: {constitution}, {establishment}, {formation},
        {organisation}]
     5: the act of organizing a business or business-related
        activity; "he was brought in to supervise the organization
        of a new department" [syn: {organisation}]
     6: the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons
        or things properly or methodically; "his organization of
        the work force was very efficient" [syn: {organisation}]
     7: 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: {organisation}, {system}]