{
  "id": "organization.administrative",
  "term": "organization",
  "sense": "administrative",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "organization",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a group of parts arranged in a recurring pattern to serve a purpose",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "part.relation",
      "arrangement.spatial",
      "purpose.goal",
      "groups.collection",
      "regular.frequency"
    ],
    "interaction": "the parts are held together in a structured way over time, enabling coordinated action toward a goal",
    "novel_properties": [
      "coordinated function",
      "persistent structure",
      "collective purpose"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains its orbit through regular reboosts by visiting spacecraft.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Postal Service processes 470 million pieces of mail daily across 31,000 post offices.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A beehive's hexagonal comb structure houses larvae and stores honey in a repeating pattern.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "system.organized",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "corporation.business",
    "executive.role",
    "logo.branding"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "organization",
    "organizations"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing components 'groups.collection' and 'regular.frequency' to align with the conceptual basis of 'organization' as a structured, recurring arrangement serving a purpose. Adjusted definition "
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-organization.administrative"
}