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{{short description|Social entity established to meet needs or pursue goals}}
{{Other uses|Organization (disambiguation)|Organizing (disambiguation){{!}}Organizing|Org (disambiguation)}}
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[[File:UN Institutions.svg|thumb|Structure of the [[United Nations]] organization  ]]
An '''organization''' or '''organisation''' ([[English in the Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth English]]; [[American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization)|see spelling differences]]) is an [[legal entity|entity]]—such as a [[company]], or [[corporation]] or an institution ([[formal organization]]), or an [[Voluntary association|association]]—comprising one or more [[person|people]] and having a particular purpose.

Organizations may also operate secretly or illegally in the case of [[secret society |secret societies]], [[criminal organization]]s, and [[resistance movement]]s. And in some cases may have obstacles from other organizations (e.g.: [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference|MLK's organization)]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://schoolofunityandconnectness.teachable.com/p/faqs|title=challenges that organizations face}}</ref> 

What makes an organization recognized by the government is either filling out [[Incorporation (business)|incorporation]] or recognition in the form of either societal pressure (e.g.: [[Advocacy group]]), causing concerns (e.g.: [[Resistance movement]]) or being considered the spokesperson of a group of people subject to negotiation (e.g.: the [[Polisario Front|Polisario Front being recognized as the sole representative of the Sahrawi people and forming a partially recognized state]].)

Compare the concept of [[social group]]s, which may include non-organizations.<ref>
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{{cite book
 | last1 = Grande
 | first1 = Odd Torgier
 | title = Organizations in society: a model framework and its application to organizations in agriculture
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4-NPAAAAYAAJ
 | publisher = Cornell University
 | date = 1970
 | page = 164
 | access-date = 8 December 2018
 | quote = It is also necessary [615513925...] to identify social systems that are <u>not</u> organizations. Many of these are enormously important, but they lack an organization's purposive activity. Among the more conspicuous 'non-organizations' are races and ethnic groups (they have no programs), social classes (their collective identities are not unequivocal and their rosters not exact), cliques and playgroups (they lack a collective identity), interest groups such as 'liberals' or 'old-fashioned conservatives' (they have no rosters).
}}
</ref>

Organizations and [[Institution|institutions]] can be synonymous, but [[Jack Knight (political scientist)|Jack Knight]] writes that organizations are a narrow version of institutions or represent a cluster of institutions; the two are distinct in the sense that organizations ''contain'' internal institutions (that govern interactions between the members of the organizations).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Knight|first=Jack|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1127523562|title=Institutions and social conflict|date=1992|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-511-52817-0|pages=1–3|oclc=1127523562}}</ref>

[https://etymology.net/organization/ The word in English is derived] from the Spanish ''organisation,'' which itself is derived from the medieval Latin ''organizationem'' and its root ''organum was'' borrowed whole from the Latin word {{Lang|el-latn|organon}}, which means tool or instrument, musical instrument, and [[Organ (anatomy)|organ]].