organization
/ˌoɹ.ɡə.nɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ noun B1- The quality of being organized. · This painting shows little organization at first glance, but little by little the structure becomes clear.
- The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article. · The organization of the book is as follows.
- A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
- A group of people consciously cooperating. · Over time, the spontaneous movement had become an organization.
- A major league club and all its farm teams. · He's been in the Dodgers' organization since 2003.
Plural organizations
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He imagined that some secret society, some implacable organization, was on Douglas’s track, which would never rest until it killed him.
As to the gang, it will be within the memory of the public how completely the evidence which Holmes had accumulated exposed their organization, and how heavily the hand of the dead man weighed upon them.
Jonathan Wild was the hidden force of the London criminals, to whom he sold his brains and his organization on a fifteen per cent.
You stand in the way not merely of an individual, but of a mighty organization, the full extent of which you, with all your cleverness, have been unable to realize.
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