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Organization vs Npo - What's the difference?

organization | npo | initialism |

Organization is a initialism of npo.


As a noun organization

is (uncountable) the quality of being organized.

As an initialism npo is

(medicine) "nil per os" (nothing by mouth - nothing may be eaten or drunk).

organization

Alternative forms

* organisation

Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being organized.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}
  • (uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
  • (countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
  • (countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.
  • (baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.
  • Hyponyms

    * institute * institution * corporation * firm * company * trade union * labor union * political party * church * school * university * hospital * See also

    npo

    English

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • (medicine) "nil per os" (nothing by mouth - nothing may be eaten or drunk)
  • non-profit organization