organization chart
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- noun
- /ˌɔrgənaɪˈzeɪʃən tʃɑrt/
- US
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organigrama
- An organization chart for St. Patrick Company is shown in Exhibit 1.
Examples
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The case material included instructions, background information on a fictitious company, an organization chart, and three cases.
Academic text (1997) -
According to the organization chart for the merged university, Bill McBride, who is currently the director of Public Safety at GHSU, will become the director of the Department of Public Safety at Georgia Regents University Augusta.
Blog text (17) -
Everyone gets a new organization chart.
Academic text (2005) -
Today the State Department organization chart shows more than thirty offices and bureaus headed by an assistant secretary of state or its rank equivalent.
Academic text (1992) -
Nowadays, the organization chart of Strasbourg Observatory is rather complex, with people from various administrations.
Academic text (2005) -
The organization chart of the typical general hospital depicts the medical staff as separated from the rest of the hospital through a dual line of authority structure (Wolinsky 1988).
Academic text (1993) -
The judge ruled that the IRS was technically violating its own regulations in deciding whether to audit churches for banned political activities because the official making that decision wasn't high enough on the Treasury Department's organization chart.
Blog text (1) -
The organization chart outlines the various departments and their roles within the company.
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She reviewed the organization chart to understand the reporting structure of the team.
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In the meeting, they presented an organization chart that illustrated the hierarchy of the new project.
Synonyms
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A picture like a graph or table that shows information clearly
A drawing that shows lines branching from one point to show connections, like a family tree
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a diagram showing the structure of an organization' is directly derivable from combining 'organization' (a collective with roles) and 'chart' (a diagram); the compound simply denotes a chart that represents an organization. This noun–noun composition is a common, productive pattern in English (and parallels exist in many other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The compound noun organization chart comes from the idea of a simple chart that shows an organization like a family tree. Imagine boxes and lines showing who reports to whom and who is above or below, so it means 'a picture of how the group is arranged and who has which job'.