paper organization
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
an organization that exists in concept, on paper, but has insufficient resources or support to be actualized as intended or envisioned.
Example Sentences
- "1970, J. S. Santelli, A Brief History of the 4th Marines, Historical Division of the U.S. Marine Corps, page 37. The 4th Marines existed only as a paper organization until 8 March 1946. Reactivation of all three battalions and the weapons company occurred on that date."
- "It remains alive today, barely, under the leadership of Joseph Lowry but is largely a paper organization without a viable mission or vision (given the demise of mass protests, its central organizational innovation), given largely to holding annual conventions, occasional rallies and marches, meetings with the president, testifying before Congress and issuing press releases."
Inflected Forms
paper organizations (plural)