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Requested but not yet delivered, as in Our new sofa is on order. This term is always used for goods of some kind, the noun order having been used in the sense of “a commission for goods” since the early 1800s. Words nearby on orderon one's soapbox, on one's tail, on one's toes, on one's uppers, on one's way, on order, on pain of, on paper, on-peak, on pins and needles, on principle The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |