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This article aims to shed light on research in organizational behavior by providing a synthesis of the polysemous understandings of the concepts of meaning and sensemaking. More and more research is analyzing the concepts of meaning and sensemaking without defining their contours. Thus, our study sheds light on the breadth of research concerning the concept of meaning. Depending on the nature of the study, meaning has been defined as: a cause or reason, projective and retrospective orientation, meaning or construction, or all of the above. Our analysis also allows us to highlight the disparate representations of the sensemaking process. Sensemaking has been understood as a process that is both retrospective and projective, cognitive, discursive, and narrative, sense-creating, complex, and global. This analysis shows the processual and subjective character of sensemaking.