Structured Summary
Abstract
Groups of people working together in a structured manner to pursue common goals and objectives.
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Classification
Broader headings
Narrower headings
- Academies and Institutes
- African Union
- Charities
- College Fraternities and Sororities
- Congresses as Topic
- Consumer Organizations
- Faith-Based Organizations
- Government
- Government Agencies
- Health Planning Organizations
- High Reliability Organizations
- Home Care Agencies
- International Agencies
- Labor Unions
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Public-Private Sector Partnerships
- Self-Help Groups
- Social Group
- Societies
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Synonyms
10 entry terms
- Organization
- Non-Governmental Organizations
- Nongovernmental Organizations
- Organizations, Nongovernmental
- Non Governmental Organizations
- Non-Governmental Organization
- Nongovernmental Organization
- Organization, Non-Governmental
- Organization, Nongovernmental
- Organizations, Non-Governmental
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Aspects Covered
9 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
general or unspecified; prefer specifics; ORGANIZATIONS tends to be for groups with a common goal based on interest, SOCIETIES tends to be for groups with common educational or professional status; specify geographic location if pertinent
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History Note
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Previous Indexing
- specific organization (1966-1967)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Organizations. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009938. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009938
- Organizations. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization
- Organizations. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43229