org

¹ American  

[awrg, oh-ahr-jee, awrg] / ˈɔrg, ˈoʊˈɑrˈdʒi, ˈɔrg /

1. (on the internet) a top-level domain appearing as a suffix on domain names used especially for nonprofit organizations.

---

noun

1. Informal. an organization, especially a nonprofit.

   The youth soccer org that I'm treasurer for has an account with this bank.

org. ² American  

abbreviation

1. organic.

2. organization.

3. organized.

---

org. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. organic

2. organization

---

org ² British  

abbreviation

1. an organization, usually a nonprofit-making organization

---

Etymology

Origin of org

First recorded in 1935–40; by shortening of organization ( def. )

Example Sentences

They shouldn’t be on org charts.

From The Wall Street Journal

More than a dozen employees have left the Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation, which includes the LeanIn.Org initiative, over the past year, either through layoffs or by choice, people familiar with the changes said.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We’re designing this org to be AI native from day one,” Maher Saba, the Meta executive in charge of the new organization, said in an internal post announcing the new teams, which report up to the company’s technology chief, Andrew Bosworth.

From The Wall Street Journal

One day, AT&T produced a top-down org chart: chairman, president, senior VPs, executive VPs and first VPs.

From The Wall Street Journal

But when the New York & Erie Railroad created the first business org chart in the 1850s, capturing the complexity of the railroad’s signaling and communications, it resembled a tree.

From The Wall Street Journal