Definition of order in English:

order

noun ˈɔːdəˈɔrdər

1mass noun The arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method.
I filed the cards in alphabetical order
Example sentencesExamples
- If there are no children and no spouse then parents, brothers and sisters, and more distant relatives roughly in that order will benefit.
- The names are in alphabetical order and first, second and third places will be announced on the night of the ceremony.
- Three criticisms can be made of the present rules, which are as follows in ascending order of gravity.
- Most were lined up at the back of the desk, arranged in alphabetical order by author.
- Dignitaries were seated in alphabetical order, according to their countries.
- It highlights the top 10 Windows and top 10 Unix issues in their relative order of importance.
- In interests of fairness, and to avoid any suggestion of judgement from me, the pieces are presented in alphabetical order.
- These activities and events are not listed in order of importance.
- According to the evolutionary sequence, the biblical order of creation is all wrong.
- The exhibition is organized in chronological order.
- Tobias shoved the first few books onto the shelves, not caring if they were in the correct order or not.
- Legal requirements oblige voters to indicate a vote, in order of preference, to every candidate on the ballot paper.
- The choice of topics and the order of their presentation clearly received careful attention.
- First, write down your goals in order of priority and then set up a timeline to achieve them.
- She shipped in a huge library of books and arranged all 600 of them into alphabetical order.
- The author has selected and arranged the music compositions in order of complexity and structural content.
- A stroke can affect your ability to read and write and even if you can talk, sometimes the words don't come out in the correct order.
- They serial numbers weren't in sequential order.
- Houses are listed in descending order of price, but it is up to web users to discover this for themselves.
- Entitled That's Life, the book has been written to no orthodox chronological order or set pattern.
Synonyms
sequence, arrangement, organization, disposition, structure, system, series, succession
grouping, classification, categorization, codification, systematization, disposal, form
layout, array, set-up, line-up
1. 1.1 A state in which everything is in its correct or appropriate place.
  she tried to put her shattered thoughts into some semblance of order
  Example sentencesExamples
  A new approach might try to impose some order, codifying the rules by which Britain is governed.
  He had to create order and purpose in the midst of a terrible chaos.
  Thousands of commuters faced the prospect of trying to get home as the initial chaos gave way to some semblance of order by mid-afternoon.
  To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
  One day I'll reorganise the sections into some semblance of order.
  Cleanliness, punctuality, order and method are essentials in the character of a good housekeeper.
  The general atmosphere was one of businesslike order and purpose.
  Unknown symbols flash past me as I look for a pattern, for underlying order beneath seeming chaos.
  The Victorians brought order to everything - scientific research included.
  Never stop telling them how important it is that your home have a sense of order about it.
  By the time the Professor returned from the airport, all public areas of the house had been restored to a semblance of order and calm.
  Only from above, from a great height, can the logic, pattern and essential order of this garden be perceived.
  Nana's extreme love for order sort of explains my mom's fanaticism with cleanliness.
  The law has to bring some order into the relationship between cyclists and pedestrians, which at the moment is in complete chaos.
  It is one of the least known, yet most powerful, devices for achieving pattern and order in the world.
  Augustine saw order as the supreme manifestation of providence.
  Synonyms
  tidiness, neatness, orderliness, trimness, harmony, apple-pie order
2. 1.2 A state in which the laws and rules regulating public behaviour are observed and authority is obeyed.
  the army was deployed to keep order
  Example sentencesExamples
  As long as the public identifies order with law, it will believe that an orderly society is impossible without the law the state provides.
  The real trick is to achieve order while upholding the rule of law.
  His country was occupied by Romans, and they had cruel methods of keeping order.
  After police restored order extra patrols were put on the streets in the area to reassure the public.
  City prosecutors said they might charge the 21 with disrupting public order.
  Insp Thomas, of Southend Police, said the extra officers would probably be used to keep order in the pubs and nightspots.
  For those with no respect or regard for law and order, such rules and laws are irrelevant.
  When these efforts fail, city officials call in the military to help restore order.
  I believe in order and justice. I believe that people are by nature good.
  Because once the law goes order collapses and the rule of the gun or the bully prevails.
  Questions have been raised over the possible impact the promotion of the NPA would have on public peace and order.
  They stand for order and the rule of law in an age when disorder and lawlessness are ever more widespread.
  To maintain public order, the authorities instituted a regular, salaried police force.
  It was enough that the rules invoked were imposed on all citizens for the protection of public order.
  Law, on the other hand, is a particular method of producing order.
  Octavian from beginning to end insisted on peace and public order.
  Their job was to secure public order through terror, intimidation and violence.
  Fistfights broke out in the hall and, for 20 minutes, police were unable to restore order.
  Public order in the city is a matter best left to the authorities and the police.
  It is the duty of the courts to ensure that there is order under the rule of law.
  Synonyms
  peace, control, lawful behaviour, law and order, law, lawfulness, discipline, calm, quiet, peace and quiet, quietness, peacefulness, peaceableness, tranquillity, serenity
3. 1.3 The prescribed or established procedure followed by a meeting, legislative assembly, debate, or court of law.
  the meeting was called to order
  Example sentencesExamples
  After the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, the meeting was called to order.
  She banged her hammer, noting that the meeting was over and calling the court to order.
  The Lukhanji town council has adopted new rules of order to regulate the conduct of its council and committee meetings.
4. 1.4 A stated form of liturgical service, or of administration of a rite, prescribed by ecclesiastical authority.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The order of service has not yet been finalised but a police family liaison officer has been asked to read a poem during the service.
  If you still have last year's order of service, please bring this along with you, as the hymn format will be similar.
  As I have been to many Evensongs since, the order of the service is now second nature.
  Much of the music and order of service had been chosen by the Princess herself.
  Synonyms
  rite, ritual, ceremonial, observance
2An authoritative command or instruction.
he was not going to take orders from a mere administrator
with infinitive the skipper gave the order to abandon ship
Example sentencesExamples
- Arrested in France on the orders of British intelligence, he then fled to Switzerland.
- Despite the doctor's order, she stood and went back to the window.
- They resigned in the face of threatened reprisals if they defied a government order to return to work.
- He said they had no choice but take to orders from above.
- Once they were airborne, James turned on his radio to receive any last minute instructions or orders.
- The army, against orders, retreated south.
- During World War II, a German army commander disobeyed orders to destroy the Ponte Vecchio.
- So where did this order come from - government or senior management?
- They are also worried that some soldiers opposed to the withdrawal will disobey orders to evacuate settlers.
- The navy pilots had orders not to fire unless fired on.
- Nobody likes taking orders or advice from others.
- Kennedy moved quickly down the line shouting orders to fire and reload.
- She was at pains to stress that job losses and branch closures are hers to decide and are not based on orders from the Melbourne headquarters.
- He lives in Adelaide and has been under doctor's orders not to travel.
- However Portugal was reluctant to stop trading with Britain, both for economic and political reasons, and Napoleon decided to send his armies to Portugal to force them to comply with his orders.
- Williams dropped his headset and grabbed his weapon, shouting orders the entire time.
- The president hasn't issued any orders along that line yet.
- The commander bellowed the orders and the men rushed to do the his bidding.
- He is under strict orders to keep the subject of his investigation under wraps, but one could hazard a wild guess that it will touch on matters political.
- Against Henry III's orders, Guise marched on Paris.
Synonyms
command, instruction, directive, direction, decree, edict, injunction, mandate, dictate, commandment
law, rule, regulation, ordinance, statute, fiat, diktat
demand, bidding, requirement, stipulation
summons, writ, warrant
in Spanish-speaking countries pronunciamento
in Tsarist Russia ukase
informal say-so
literary behest
rare rescript
1. 2.1 A verbal or written request for something to be made, supplied, or served.
  the firm has won an order for six tankers
  Example sentencesExamples
  Once you're seated, the waitress promptly takes your order and then serves the dish.
  On the export front, the showcasing of the car in the Auto Mechanika last year has resulted in good export orders and enquiries.
  With Christmas just around the corner, we are now taking orders for Christmas cakes and puddings etc.
  In the last week it has won orders worth more than £300,000.
  Now the National Books website receives millions of hits and processes tens of thousands of online transactions and book orders each day.
  The waitress wrote down the orders and left with a smile on her face.
  The company expects orders to reach at least $2.5 billion for the whole year.
  Now, factory workers place orders directly with suppliers via touchscreen computers at their work stations.
  The factory is the biggest local employer, and many other local industries depend on orders from the firm.
  A spokesperson confirmed that 40 to 60 people are to be employed on a short-term basis to meet production orders.
  The books are destined to be bestsellers, with advance orders for over 400,000 already taken from booksellers nationwide.
  Advance orders have now reached 1.8 million worldwide.
  Online sellers also spend more money checking and processing orders.
  Unaccustomed to such efficient and personal service I placed my order at once, sat back and waited.
  Last month the government confirmed an order for two aircraft carriers at a cost of £3 billion.
  Jim guarantees that within three weeks of placing your order, the product can be delivered.
  The skinny waiter came back with the drinks and took our orders.
  Colin dialed up a local pizza parlor and put in an order for five large pizzas.
  Just because a server is polite and brings you the correct order doesn't mean they deserve a tip.
  The shop was humming with activity as waitresses whizzed to and fro, taking orders or delivering desserts to the customers.
  Synonyms
  commission, purchase order, request, requisition, demand, call
  booking, reservation, application
2. 2.2 A thing made, supplied, or served as a result of an order.
  he would deliver special orders for the Sunday dinner
  Example sentencesExamples
  The fact is that the company is still losing about £4 every time it delivers an order.
  We only deliver an order once the payment is cleared.
  The FTC takes a very aggressive stance towards retailers who fail to deliver orders on time.
  Suppliers are also left out of pocket when they think they are delivering high-value orders to a legitimate address and their subsequent invoices go unpaid.
  After a tiring morning I come home and find that my postman had delivered my recent order from Amazon.
  Customer service is also rated a top priority, with the company aiming to deliver 90 per cent of orders by the next day.
  The book came today and was waiting on the kitchen table when Jill and I came in with six orders of well-done fried onion rings.
  It signed up its millionth customer in December, and delivered over a million orders in the run-up to Christmas.
  A rise in the number of volunteers available to deliver orders has made it possible for the service to be extended.
  In future, these businesses could lose big customers if they failed to prove they had appropriate plans to minimise disruption and ensure customer orders could be delivered.
  I was told that their next order wasn't being delivered for another six weeks, and that I'd be better ordering it online myself.
  I left the house in time to prepare the orders and get them delivered.
  The self-assembly furniture retailer said it was unable to deliver orders on time due to supply chain problems.
  However, the internet retailer has been dogged by claims that it left some customers without Christmas presents after failing to deliver orders on time.
  We are busy sourcing new products and shipping orders.
3. 2.3 A written direction of a court or judge.
  she was admitted to hospital under a guardianship order
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, added the mayor, city hall will naturally respect the court's order, whatever it may be.
  He was acquitted on the orders of a judge on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
  A High Court judge made an order which will result in the twins being returned to Missouri in the United States where they were born.
  The judge will pass sentence in the new year when the businessman will face either a jail term or a lengthy community service order.
  I have not seen any order of the court with regard to Dr Smith, nor have I seen the court's judgment.
  The judge will consider the confiscation order in relation to his recent convictions.
  Gray was sentenced to a psychiatric and community service rehabilitation order of three years.
  To defy a High Court deportation order, he took sanctuary in the Church of the Ascension.
  He was also made the subject of a legal order, which forced him to refrain from any discussion whatsoever of the proceedings.
  He was given a community service order and put on probation.
  The lawsuit has been put on hold by the administration order which protects a company from its creditors and gives it time to put together a rescue package.
  The court made no order for costs against the defendant.
  The above conditions may be varied or deleted by further order of the court.
  ‘The government has always respected and executed orders of this Court,’ they wrote.
  He said the group had a good case to mount a legal challenge to the administration order but would waive its right to pursue litigation once the deal was done.
  The pair were given a shared custody order by a Pasadena court on July 27, 1999 with equal rights and duties.
  The government is expected to apply for a special administration order under the Railways Act in the High Court over the next few days.
  He was sentenced to a 200-hour community service order and was banned from driving for 18 months.
  They were released from custody over the weekend on the orders of a District Judge at Manchester Magistrates Court.
  If no other order of the Court is made tomorrow, I would expect that he will be released tomorrow.
  Synonyms
  arbitration, refereeing, umpiring
4. 2.4 A written direction to pay money or deliver property.
  Example sentencesExamples
  He was held to be in breach of fiduciary duty when he misappropriated funds from the company's bank account by fraudulently altering the name of the payee on a payment order addressed to the bank.
  The clearing banks' role in the payment and collection of cheques and other payment orders is directly related to one of their main activities, namely the maintenance of current accounts.
  Synonyms
  voucher, coupon, chit, docket, stamp, credit note, iou
3A particular social, political, or economic system.
they were dedicated to overthrowing the established order
Example sentencesExamples
- The fall of the old order was seen to be in the best interests of the country.
- It is rather a political order which supports the survival of weak states.
- This partially explains why the powerful challenges to the corporate order in the postwar period overwhelmingly failed.
- Furthermore, the very presence of democratic institutions and values can be seen as a threat by some established social and political orders.
- As to the economic order, there was to be no going back, and no second chances.
- They aimed to achieve a complete break from the old order of nation-states, and to create a federal constitution for Europe.
- the very fact of the revolution - a popular rising against the established order - placed Louis XVI beyond the scope and protection of the new regime.
- A new political and economic order was quickly installed.
- There is a real revolutionary process under way, aiming to overturn the existing political and economic order.
- A political order that produces a choice between two such candidates has lost all credibility.
- They want a social, political and economic order in which they can feel safe - and empowered.
- The most radical workers and peasants, and many of the young conscripts, wanted to use their strength to overthrow the old order.
- It would surely work to maintain the old order and to keep Everything In Its Proper Place.
- New technology always challenges the established order, and eventually a new equilibrium is reached.
- These policies have usurped traditional Maori authority while denying Maori a significant position in the newly established political and social orders.
- Continued concern about its effect on the world's future political and economic order still remains.
- The victories of the Revolutionary and imperial armies reshaped the European order.
- He has his mind on overthrowing the old order, she is concerned with her own emotional and financial security.
- The incoming industrial order is designed to correct the shortcomings of the old.
- An important political component of the post-war order was the United Nations.
Synonyms
system, class system, hierarchy, pecking order, grouping, grading, ranking, scale
1. 3.1often orders A social class.
  the upper social orders
  Example sentencesExamples
  The magazine was clearly bought by those of the lower social orders who sought to improve themselves, and such people got little encouragement from most of the intellectual community.
  Such a vision certainly harked back to the Ancien Régime conception of a society of ranks and orders.
  Additional studies comparing how the war affected families of different social orders would undoubtedly shed more light on this question.
  Those farmers who remained on the land became more militant, resulting in the loss of power by the old rural upper orders.
  As is well known, the months preceding the declaration of August 4 were filled with rancor between the commoners and the privileged orders.
  Concerned citizens became dismayed at the suffering among what they then called the lower social orders.
  The economic factors of renewed urbanization affected all orders of European society.
  They were by no means from the upper orders, these were street kids in Los Angeles.
  They conclude that military service temporarily removed the young, labouring men who dominated the criminal orders, only to return them, duly brutalised, at the war's end.
  The medieval manor therefore sustained the three orders of medieval society: those who pray, those who fight, and those who work.
  Synonyms
  class, level, rank, caste, grade, degree, position, station, category
2. 3.2 A rank in the Christian ministry, especially that of bishop, priest, or deacon.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The diaconate is a full and analogous order of ordained ministry to which both men and women are called by God.
  These two men struggled with the validity of Anglican orders and sacramental theology.
  In the past we've split over such things as the punctuation of the creeds, the orders of ministry and the nature of communion.
  I will look also at some intriguing hints that Rome may be reconsidering its position that Anglican ministerial orders are null and void.
3. 3.3orders The rank of a member of the clergy or an ordained minister of the Church.
  he took priest's orders
  See also holy orders
  Example sentencesExamples
  He was educated at Cambridge, took priest's orders, and became known as a preacher.
  He became a monk and may have taken deacon's orders.
  After taking orders in 1782, he became the perpetual curate of Barton-under-Needwood in 1783.
  Watson had been ordained a deacon in 1856 and he took priest's orders two years later.
4. 3.4Theology Any of the nine grades of angelic beings in the celestial hierarchy as formulated by Pseudo-Dionysius.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Angels, however, the lowest of the nine orders, do not have wings.
  Hierarchies and litanies were emphasized: the nine orders of the angels, the Joys and Sorrows of the Virgin.
4A society of monks, nuns, or friars living under the same religious, moral, and social regulations and discipline.
the Franciscan Order
Example sentencesExamples
- Luigi Guido Grandi was a member of the order of the Camaldolites.
- He entered the Jesuit order in 1726 going to the Jesuit College in Piacenza in 1728 to teach literature.
- Mersenne continued his education within the order at Nigeon and then at Meaux.
- With the exception of some religious orders in which monks vow to live in solitude, most of us need other people to add texture to our lives.
- He considered joining a monastic order but was persuaded by his parish priest to enter the secular clergy.
- Luxembourg has also traditionally been the home of a great number of convents and religious orders, a number that has dwindled since the last century.
- Among the religious orders, only the friars had a vocation that by its very nature embraced the seriously poor and, indeed, the utterly destitute in the regular course of events.
- In the past the members of strict religious orders took the discipline as a matter of course.
- Monks from the various orders in Europe had flocked to England to set up religious houses.
- He has attended several retreats at the abbey, run by the Catholic order of Benedictine monks.
- In the 1200s, members of new religious orders, called friars, began to work among the people.
- In 1600 he went to Salamanca, where he joined the Franciscan Order.
- Catholic schools tend to be run by religious orders, such as the Holy Ghosts, Jesuits and Loreto nuns.
- Between the ninth and eleventh centuries the Benedictines and other monastic orders expanded across Europe.
- For four centuries it was home to members of the Cistercian order, whose lives were dominated by manual labour and prayer.
- There are many private schools, run primarily by Catholic religious orders.
- It expelled religious orders from the country and disestablished the Roman Catholic church.
- I joined the order as a First Degree member in October and have developed mixed feelings since then.
- The church might even consider limiting bishops to two five-year terms, as many religious orders do for their leaders.
- A significant number of the monks have earned university degrees before joining the order.
Synonyms
community, brotherhood, sisterhood
1. 4.1historical A society of knights bound by a common rule of life and having a combined military and monastic character.
  the Templars were also known as the Order of Christ
  Example sentencesExamples
  Feudalism was abolished along with the Inquisition and the Church's military orders, and two-thirds of monasteries and convents were dissolved.
  The Order of the Knights Templar was formed during the crusades when many knights and squires set out for the Holy Land.
  The military orders, and the knights under King John put up a valiant defense and saved what they could of the army.
  Only the strong leadership of John and the military orders saved the army at all; even so, thousands died that day
  Amongst the most famous of these crusader orders were the Order of the Knights Templar.
2. 4.2 An institution founded by a monarch along the lines of a medieval crusading monastic order for the purpose of honouring meritorious conduct.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In 1998 he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour.
  The order became defunct with the death of its last knight, HRH The Duke of Gloucester, in 1974.
  He was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour by his second country in 1896 and a commander of the order in 1933.
3. 4.3 The insignia worn by members of an order of honour or merit.
4. 4.4 A Masonic or similar fraternity.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The lobby in Westminster is believed by many to have been based originally on a Masonic order.
  Freemasonry, though banned from time to time, flourished in Russia, and the Masonic orders had a wide range of members.
  Synonyms
  organization, association, society, fellowship, body, fraternity, confraternity, sorority, brotherhood, sisterhood, lodge, guild, league, union, club
  denomination, sect
  rare sodality
5in singular The quality or nature of something.
poetry of the highest order
Example sentencesExamples
- Talent of this order is rare, and I have a feeling that Paul is not through with surprising us.
- Her vibrancy, dramatic range and willowy elegance make her a classical ballerina of the highest order.
- Science and technology can achieve impressive technological feats like going to the moon - but the real problems we face today are of a very different order.
- The reality of this world is that there is nothing for free and everything of this order comes at a cost.
- The truth is that we are simply not good enough to beat a team playing rugby of a different order to ours.
- It has more than adequate accuracy for that purpose and a high order of reliability.
- This is journalism of a high order in which the reporter creates a vista that involves the reader.
Synonyms
type, kind, sort, nature, variety, ilk, genre, cast, style, brand, vintage
quality, calibre, standard
1. 5.1with adjective The overall state or condition of something.
  the house had only just been vacated and was in good order
  Example sentencesExamples
  They train police in the use of screening devices and ensure the equipment is in good order.
  Perform quarterly or annual home checkups to make sure everything is in working order.
  The organizing committee have put much work and effort into making sure everything is in perfect order for the day.
  The field was in good order but the damp conditions hampered the accuracy of the passing between sides.
  The local committee leave no stone unturned to ensure that everything is in perfect order for the event.
  Make occasional checks to ensure the equipment is in good order.
  Paramount has done a fine job at making sure that everything is in working order in this picture.
  We urge all readers to get their financial affairs in good order right now.
  She is young and tough, the servants respect her, and everything is in impeccable order.
  When my room was in perfect order and everything was exactly how I wanted it we left the room.
  It is now back in Wales, being restored to working order for service on the re-opened Welsh Highland Railway.
  The car was in excellent running order having been fully serviced by Jim, Juliette and Steffan the night before.
  Away from the administrative side, Logan feels everything is in perfect order.
  All are very much appreciated, however it is important that all items should be clean and in good serviceable order.
  If we don't keep the hinges oiled and everything in working order, it will just seize up on you.
  Synonyms
  condition, state, repair, shape, situation
6Biology
A principal taxonomic category that ranks below class and above family.
the higher orders of insects
Example sentencesExamples
- Genera are the smallest basic groups of related species; higher up on the taxonomic ladder, orders encompass hundreds of genera.
- This epoch is characterized by the appearance of all of the presently existing orders and families, and many of the existing genera of mammals.
- All spiders are members of the arachnid order Araneae, which is divided into two suborders.
- There are approximately 650 to 700 extant species of cephalopods in two subclasses and five orders.
- The rhinoceros beetle is one of the largest members of the order Coleoptera.
Synonyms
taxonomic group, class, subclass, family, species, breed
technical taxon
7Any of the five classical styles of architecture (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite) based on the proportions of columns and the style of their decoration.
Example sentencesExamples
- The interior of Syon Hall has a Doric order with high attic and flat-beamed ceiling.
- These columns are of different orders on each storey (Tuscan at the bottom, then Ionic, with Corinthian columns in the third storey).
- Work out for yourself the differences between Corinthian, Ionic and Doric orders.
- The Pantheon in Rome is an ideal case study for understanding classical space, orders, composition, light, and character.
- The former asylum is a stately quadrangular building of stone with pillars of the Doric order.
- They reflect his keen appreciation of modern design, married with his admiration for classical orders.
1. 7.1 Any style of architecture subject to uniform established proportions.
8Military
mass noun, with modifier Equipment or uniform for a specified purpose or of a specified type.
the platoon changed from drill order into PT kit
Example sentencesExamples
- They normally wear Home Service review order dress as would have been worn on garrison duties and manoeuvres during the latter part of the nineteenth century.
- Behind them, dressed in review order, marched the infantry of the British Army.
1. 8.1the order The position in which a rifle is held after ordering arms.
  See order arms below
9Mathematics
The degree of complexity of an equation, expression, etc., as denoted by an ordinal number.
Example sentencesExamples
- This integral was introduced in a paper on differential equations of the second order which he wrote in 1870.
- The predictor variables were entered in the same order for both equations.
- In the study of differential equations his methods of lowering the order of an equation and separating variables were important.
- The transient equations for the second orders of the identity coefficients are too complicated to solve.
- His research was mostly on second order ordinary differential equations.
1. 9.1 The number of differentiations required to reach the highest derivative in a differential equation.
2. 9.2 The number of elements in a finite group.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Cauchy had already proved that a group whose order is divisible by a prime p has an element of order p.
  He received his doctorate for a thesis entitled Contributions to the theory of integral functions of finite order in 1929.
  He examines orders of elements and proves (although not in this notation) that there is a subgroup for every number dividing the order of a cyclic group.
3. 9.3 The number of rows or columns in a square matrix.

verb ˈɔːdəˈɔrdər

1reporting verb Give an authoritative instruction to do something.
with object and infinitive she ordered me to leave
with direct speech ‘Stop frowning,’ he ordered
with clause he ordered that the ship be abandoned
with object the judge ordered a retrial
Example sentencesExamples
- British commanders were so confident they ordered their troops to walk slowly towards the German lines.
- Brown was also ordered by the court to pay £250 compensation and £65 costs.
- Bosses at Metrolink have also ordered ticket inspectors to take a tough line against anyone caught without a ticket.
- The judge also ordered the defendant to attend an alcohol awareness programme.
- ‘Stop the car!’ he ordered.
- He was taken before a judge last Thursday who ordered that he be held in custody.
- Every person is hereby ordered to immediately evacuate the City of New Orleans.
- ‘Begin the treatment,’ the doctor ordered sharply.
- Their commanding officer ordered them to stop because this was disrespectful.
- The government responded by imposing a state of emergency in late November and ordering its regular army to fight the rebels.
- Officers will have the power to order gangs of yobs to disperse or face arrest.
- New chairman John Robinson has since ordered a review of compensation arrangements for senior managers.
- Just when he felt he could go no farther, his lieutenant ordered the unit to drop their 100 lb backpacks.
- As the firefight continues, the commander orders his men to conserve ammunition.
- And Bingley magistrates yesterday ordered him to pay what he owed at a rate of £1, 000 a month.
- Hartlepool magistrates yesterday ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the cannabis plants.
- The judge ordered that he and his family be placed in a witness protection programme.
- His behaviour is said to have included regularly dressing down officers in front of other staff and ordering them to do menial tasks when they were tired.
- Air marshals pursued and ordered the passenger to get down on the ground.
- The judge ordered an inquiry into the incident.
Synonyms
instruct, command, direct, enjoin, give the order to, give the command to, tell, require, charge, adjure
literary bid
decree, ordain, rule, legislate, lay down, dictate, prescribe, pronounce, determine
rare enact
1. 1.1order someone about/aroundwith object Continually tell someone to do things in an overbearing way.
  she resented being ordered about
  Example sentencesExamples
  It seemed that he took much pleasure in ordering me around.
  And then an officer walks by me and starts ordering me around.
  Later, I saw him screaming at male crew members, ordering them about and obviously enjoying their subservience and the fact that they couldn't answer him back.
  That was the other thing, Sonia never said please or thank you, as if my willingness to help somehow entitled her to order me around.
  She resented the way the commander and his men ordered her around and treated her like a child.
  I'm not ordering you around, it's just a suggestion.
  I'm as good as you are, pal; don't think ye can order me about just because I'm a waiter!
  The two boys take pleasure in ordering Johnny around.
  You treat us as though we're nothing more than your lackeys; constantly ordering us around.
  She'd realized that Paige had a way of making people do things her way without ordering them about.
  Look here Stevie, you don't order me around like that.
  At the same time, a new beefed-up universities quango will take on a far stronger supervisory role, and academic leaders fear this will lead to ministers being able to order them around.
  Don't you hate it when he orders you around like that?
  Despite being so much younger than her, he has a real public school cockiness and she loves the way he orders her about.
  I don't think so Mrs. Lincoln, no one orders me around.
  You don't even know who we are, and you're ordering us around!
  She has, on repeated occasions, made my brother's life a misery by ordering him around like a kid and telling him off despite the fact that he's 29.
  Being a juvenile, he'd have to put up with people ordering him around for another three or four years.
  Synonyms
  tell someone what to do, give orders to, boss about/around, bully, lord it over, dictate to, ride roughshod over, dominate, domineer, browbeat
  throw one's weight about/around, lay down the law
  informal push about/around
2. 1.2North American with object and complement Command (something) to be done or (someone) to be treated in a particular way.
  he ordered the anchor dropped
  Example sentencesExamples
  Expressing concerns about vandalism, the landlord ordered the artwork removed.
  They ordered the offshore funds returned to the United States.
  He ordered foreign investment and competition dropped.
  The court ordered him dishonorably discharged and sent to military prison for ten years.
  Synonyms
  instruct, command, direct, enjoin, give the order to, give the command to, tell, require, charge, adjure
2with object Request (something) to be made, supplied, or served.
my mate ordered the tickets last week
with two objects I asked the security guard to order me a taxi
no object are you ready to order, sir?
Example sentencesExamples
- As we were waiting for our food, we decided to order a few pitchers of beer to pass the time.
- The director promptly ordered a glass of kir royale, and we followed his lead.
- She ordered the lobster, crab and prawn terrine.
- I ordered goods for delivery by a specific date, which has since passed.
- I almost always order a grilled sole served with green beans or spinach.
- I order shoes straight from Manolo Blahnik, or I buy them from Harrods.
- When the maître d' took them to their table, Trent immediately ordered a bottle of red wine.
- Five hundred copies have already been ordered in advance.
- I went back to the bar to order the food, only to be informed that they finished serving food an hour ago.
- The best thing about it was that if they didn't have a particular album, they'd order it for you from a catalogue.
- Shoppers will be able to order groceries on the internet, then collect them at their leisure.
- I've just ordered a pizza to go and collect in 10 minutes or so.
- He likes to be able to get by in new countries, and where better to start than to learn how to order drinks in bars?
- She was 15 and alone in a country where she barely knew how to order a cup of coffee.
- She snuck a glance in the direction of the bar but Nathan was busy ordering their drinks.
- The waitress comes along to see if we would like to order a drink and he perused the wine list.
- In a nutshell, if you want to stay in the business, all your guests have to be treated like VIPs - not just the ones ordering champagne and foie gras.
- It is always a good sign when there is so much you want to taste that you have great trouble deciding what to order.
- Jen had just ordered her pizza and went outside to enjoy the cold February air.
- I ordered it out of the catalog two weeks ago and I haven't heard a word about it since.
Synonyms
request, apply for, send away/off for, write off for, put in an order for, place an order for, requisition
book, reserve
commission, contract for
rare bespeak
3with object Arrange (something) in a methodical way.
all entries are ordered by date
her normally well-ordered life
Example sentencesExamples
- I have to order my notes once, twice, three times before I can start actually using them.
- In fact one of the characteristics of Dietrich as a thinker is the systematic way in which he not only orders his thoughts but his treatises as well.
- It's in alphabetical order, because ordering them by preference would just be too difficult.
- Jenny admits that with two small children, she has to order her time very carefully.
- The exhibition catalogue is ordered by the artists' dates of birth.
- She sat on the edge of her bed, trying to order her thoughts.
- As his previously well-ordered life slips away from him he loses control and his judgement deserts him.
Synonyms
organize, put in order, set in order, arrange, sort out, straighten out, marshal, dispose, lay out, regulate
group, classify, categorize, catalogue, codify, systematize, systemize, tabulate
Medicine triage
rare methodize

Phrases

by order

According to directions given by the proper authority.
he was released from prison by order of the court
Example sentencesExamples
- If the child is in care by order of a Court then it is the Court and local authority who make the decisions about who the child can see.
- The accused were brought from Lancaster to Barrow by order of the Home Secretary.
- I am writing this in Brussels on a Sunday when no private cars are allowed in the streets, by order.
- The Government must create a new wetland on the east coast by order of the European Court to replace two lost to development in Kent and Suffolk.
- Services will be curtailed while fire doors are replaced, by order of the Health and Safety Authority.
- Children under the care of a local authority by voluntary agreement or by order of a court often have poor physical and mental health.
- Captain Leghorn, after registering five missions, was grounded by order of higher headquarters until after D-Day.
- He was released by order of an examining magistrate on 30 June after 44 days without access to judicial review or to his family or lawyer.
- In 2001, the company started firing union members by order of the government.
- His microphone had been switched off, by order of the bench, but he carried on speaking.

in order

1According to a particular sequence.
list the points you intend to cover and put them in order
Example sentencesExamples
- It's all in place, and it's simply a matter of doing things in order.
- The history portion isn't always in order, which can be a bit confusing.
- Every item needed to be kept, in order, between the correct allocated colour coded dividers.
- Keep the cheques in order, and cash them in order, and don't forget to tick each one off your list each night you get back to the hotel.
- As a historian, she can put things in order, illuminate the past and maybe right a few wrongs.
- He bet £1 and as the game progressed was dealt - in order - two red aces, a five and two more red aces.
- Although the stages of grief are described, they don't progress in order.
- Aaron scrambled to pick up the papers and put them in order.
- Each involves a series of specific steps, which must be done correctly and in order.
- But on top of that, you have to put the chronology in order here.
Synonyms
in sequence, in alphabetical order, in numerical order, in order of priority, in order of merit, in order of seniority
2In the correct condition for operation or use.
it is the liquidator's task to put the affairs of the company in order
Example sentencesExamples
- A two or five-year plan is better than no plan at all and you need to make sure your finances are properly in order before making a move.
- Sit down this weekend, get your affairs in order, and I promise you can trim hundreds of pounds, in some cases thousands, off your annual costs.
- Employers are only required to ask if workers' papers are in order.
- He noted with approval that the room was spotless, and everything was in order.
- The committee are sparing no effort in ensuring that everything is in order for the big day.
- Jon liked everything tidy and in order where he could find it, but James Hyde was a messy man.
- We reviewed the data management procedures and found them to be in order.
- When purchasing land, one must be careful to ensure that the title deeds are in order and that the land has been correctly classified.
- And it's just very hard if you don't have your legal affairs in order.
- Normally, as long as all the documentation is in order you will eventually be approved.
- Once that decision is made, airlines will then have a year to put their houses in order, before the new legal requirements come into force.
Synonyms
tidy, neat, neat and tidy, orderly, straight, trim, shipshape, shipshape and bristol fashion, in apple-pie order, spick and span
3In accordance with the rules of procedure at a meeting, legislative assembly, etc.
surely it is in order for Conservative Members to put various policy options to the Prime Minister?
Example sentencesExamples
- I listened to Mr Mallard's question, which was not in order, and I did not allow it.
- There were comments made in that point of order that were not in order.
- Last week it was not in order for the Minister even to find out that simple detail.
- The Minister is responsible for his legislation, and therefore the question was in order.
- But ultimately it is the Speaker who must rule upon whether a question is in order.
- But the Assembly has now determined that the Bluestone decision is quite in order and will not need further examination.
- My recollection is that one supplementary question was ruled as being in order on that particular day.
- The Speaker ruled at the time that my comments were in order and that the member should withdraw.
- Just yesterday that word was ruled in order when it was used by a Minister in answering a question in this House.
- Did that mean that he had authority to cast it, and that the vote was in order?
Synonyms
permissible, permitted, allowed, allowable, admissible, acceptable
1. 3.1Appropriate in the circumstances.
  a little bit of flattery was now in order
  Example sentencesExamples
  Maybe some professional expert opinions are in order here.
  It occurred to me at about 3am, as I lay in bed with a raging fever and hacking cough, that perhaps a visit to a doctor was in order.
  Perhaps a quick, yet enlightening, history lesson is in order.
  A call to the Advertising Standards Authority could be in order.
  After six years of a strong dollar, a correction might be in order.
  For the reasons behind my mirth, a little history lesson is in order.
  The errors in your article were significant enough that printing a correction, or at least this letter, is in order.
  To understand the goals and significance of Gravity Probe B, a brief dip into the history of physics is in order.
  A little modesty or circumspection would be in order here.
  To put things in perspective a quick historical comparison is in order.
  Synonyms
  appropriate, fitting, suitable, right, correct, proper

in order for (or that)

So that.
staff must be committed to the change in order for it to succeed
Example sentencesExamples
- Classes were cancelled after the school shut for a day and a half at the height of the crisis in order for security to be increased.
- She added the council was pursuing the acquisition of land and property along the route in order for the scheme to go ahead.
- Councillors told us that in order for wild flowers to flourish the rich alluvial silt must be removed.
- All of these are valid questions, because in order for a bully to succeed he or she must have victims.
- I think in order for a record to be commercially successful it has to get exposure from press, radio and tv as well.
- This voucher should be given to the cashier at the Royal Pavilion in order for you to receive your tickets.
- Her arm will remain in a cast for a few weeks in order for her injuries to heal correctly.
- The police had to close two lanes of the carriageway in order for the wreckage to be cleared.
- Alexander feels that, in order for the legal system to work, people must have free access to it.
- However, unless your tenancy has run out you cannot be evicted in order for the house to be sold.

in order to do something

With the purpose of doing something.
he slouched into his seat in order to avoid drawing attention to himself
Example sentencesExamples
- Previously they had to find a job and apply for a work permit in order to stay in this country.
- Then there is the huge number of people who have borrowed to the hilt in order to secure a home.
- Also, do you need to have a credit history with a bank in order to take out a loan?
- I set up this blog in order to keep my friends and family informed of my time in Hanoi.
- I pay road tax and other taxes in order to use the highway and this is now being denied.
- Users must set up an online account in order to view, save and print documents.
- We have velux windows in the office and in order to see out we have to scrape the snow off them.
- It is an individual sport where you have to handle the pressure in order to succeed.
- This creates a problem for a company that needs to maximise its profits in order to grow.
- It is also expected to shed jobs through natural wastage in order to keep costs down.

of the order of

1Approximately.
sales increases are of the order of 20 per cent
Example sentencesExamples
- The disease is prevalent worldwide and in 1993, the cost of health care for COPD was estimated to be of the order of $15 billion.
- The amount directly at stake is not especially large, the principal sum being of the order of $114,000.
- In the late seventeenth century, the average number of copper coins minted annually was of the order of two to three hundred million; by the early nineteenth century this had increased eightfold.
- We're looking at the risk of destabilisation of the West Antarctic ice sheet, or a very rapid decay of the ice sheet, leading to sea rise over centuries of the order of 6 or 7 metres or so.
- Since his return to work his income had substantially increased year by year such that by 1999 it was of the order of £425, 250 p.a. gross.
- We estimate that total area of infestation is only of the order of about 350 hectares and that's spread along about 60, 70 or so isolated populations.
- For any real impact to be made, reductions in emissions of the order of 60 per cent are needed now.
- The number of days taken as sick, and the cost, is of the order of 70 percent up on what it was for the same period of time last year.
- It is reasonable to assume that in due course he will have an earning capacity of the order of £10,000 per annum, but that it will take three years before he is likely to achieve that level of earnings.
- At this rate, inflation of the order of 10 percent is pretty much inevitable.
Synonyms
roughly, approximately, about, around, just about, round about, or so, or thereabouts, more or less, in the neighbourhood of, in the region of, in the area of, in the vicinity of, something like, give or take, give or take a few, in round numbers, rounded down, rounded up
2Mathematics
Having the order of magnitude specified by.
Example sentencesExamples
- A spectrograph/diode array system accomplishes the detection with a signal-to-noise ratio of the order of 105.
- Integral-expressing K562 cells were pushed by a force of the order of 100 pN against surfaces coated with iibronectin fragments.
- With N of the order of 100 for 20dB sensitivity improvement, the total work of acquisition rises to some five orders of magnitude greater.

on order

(of goods) requested but not yet received from the supplier or manufacturer.
the helicopters have been on order for two years
Example sentencesExamples
- Paul Cheevers, District Manager for Iarnrod Eireann in Waterford said that the steel girders were on order and were due to be put in place over the weekend.
- Further investment was planned with an extra 10 rapid-response vehicles on order on top of 18 already sent out on the roads in the last year.
- Service is scheduled to begin in October 2005 and 29 more trains are on order.
- And congratulations on the book: I've got a copy on order today.
- They'd sold the last one that morning, but they put one on order for me, so I should be able to get it sometime next week.
- The firm currently operates four vessels - three bulk carriers and an oil tanker - and has a fifth on order at Guangzhou Shipyard International.
- A county council spokesperson confirmed that new signs were on order and would be installed as soon as they arrived.
- He was not aware of how many buses the factory had on order.
- We've a new metal shed on order too, so hopefully that will arrive soon.
- The new Learning Zone has 15 new computers and four more are on order which are adapted for people with disabilities.

on the order of

1Approximately.
it's a small fee, on the order of $10
Example sentencesExamples
- Even if economic output shrinks by 2 % this quarter, productivity would still grow on the order of 2 %.
- Fahrenheit 9/11 has sold something on the order of 13 million tickets.
- The percentage of people who are university graduates in this country is still on the order of perhaps 25 percent of the adult population.
- Some estimates put the total cost of the storm, including both property damage and economic losses, on the order of $100 billion.
- Her appearance fee was on the order of 10,000 yuan or more.
- If drugs were sold in a competitive market, and the government funded research, the savings would be on the order of $120 billion a year.
- The whole operation appears to have cost on the order of $500,000.
- Private economists at Goldman Sachs expect the deficits will be on the order of $300 to $375 billion.
- Agricultural subsidies cost something on the order of $1 billion a day in Western countries.
- The pack's annual operating budget is on the order of $2000.
2Similar to.
singers on the order of Janis Joplin
Example sentencesExamples
- Winkler's film seems to aspire to a quirky social commentary on the order of American Beauty.
- While not a classic on the order of 1991, this was a memorable World Series, filled with some strange and often surreal moments.
- Mitchell grew up in a home where people on the order of Thornton Wilder, Dylan Thomas and T.S. Eliot came to visit.
- I don't think the current malaise is a catastrophe on the order of Black Monday.

Order! (or Order! Order!)

A call for silence or the observance of the prescribed procedures by someone in charge of a meeting, legislative assembly, etc.
Example sentencesExamples
- We have had the entire Government front bench calling out, and all you did was to call out ‘Order!’
- ‘Order! ‘the judge yelled again, this time striking her gavel against a small wooden block.

order arms

Hold a rifle with its butt on the ground close to one's right side.
Example sentencesExamples
- On the command ‘Sentries Pass,’ I saluted, ordered arms and stood at ease.
- The three soldiers ordered arms and went on about their duties and the gates began to close.

order of battle

The units, formations, and equipment of a military force.
Example sentencesExamples
- In September 1943 she filed a stunningly accurate report on the German missile order of battle.
- Few old county infantry regiments remain in the British Army order of battle, but the Duke of Wellington's Regiment is proudly celebrating that very status after 300 years.
- They knew when it would occur and what the German order of battle would be.
- Scobell is credited with providing valuable intelligence on Confederate order of battle, status of supplies, and troop morale and movements.
- American historians were disputing basic issues, such as the enemy order of battle, decades after the conflict came to an end.
- Although originally set up to resolve problems arising from the interaction of the forces involved, the missions quickly adopted an intelligence collection objective - mainly to report on order of battle.
- The purpose is to obtain information regarding an adversary's order of battle, capabilities, plans, attitudes, and intentions.
- Intelligence on both the Turkish order of battle and on the topography of Gallipoli was all but non-existent.
- Perhaps ULTRA's greatest contribution to victory in the west was its cumulative accretion of details about the German order of battle.
- This is the Navy's premier means of maintaining their electronic order of battle.

the order of the day

1The prevailing custom or state of affairs.
on Sundays, a black suit was the order of the day
confusion would seem to be the order of the day
Example sentencesExamples
- Indoors, there is a feeling of isolation from the real world - it is almost like going back in time to a more genteel era, when peace and quiet and high standards of service were the order of the day.
- In the past, the US anti-doping system was a bit of a joke, with self-regulation the order of the day among professional sports.
- This is the stark reality in a city where cutthroat competition between textile businesses is the order of the day.
- The chef remains tight-lipped as to the recipe, but you can rest assured that, like everything at Grassroots, high quality, impeccable ingredients will be the order of the day.
- While everywhere else spending cuts are now the order of the day, Darmstadt has an annual arts budget of DM 58.3 million.
- As the grey skies descend once again, reminding us all that it's still really winter, navel-gazing has become the order of the day.
- The affair probably dates back to the hedonistic days, of the late Eighties and early Nineties when conspicuous consumption was the order of the day.
- BIG hair was the order of the day for models showing off British designer John Galliano's ready-to-wear collection at the end of Paris fashion week.
- Gentle pastel colours are the order of the day, and wherever you are in the building, you're close to a source of natural light.
- Stunning dresses in vibrant shades were the order of the day, with Teri Hatcher's Greek-style midnight blue number carrying off the style prizes.
- When the Great Depression came in 1929 and business failures became the order of the day Holt, like everyone else, was placed under tremendous pressure.
Synonyms
predominant, prevalent, current, customary, established, common, widespread, preponderant, in force, in effect, popular
2(in a legislature) the business to be considered on a particular day.

orders are orders

Commands must be obeyed, however much one may disagree with them.
orders are orders and you're only doing your duty
Example sentencesExamples
- But orders are orders, I'm sure after so many years, you understand.
- I don't see the point, it's not like the grass is gonna grow much in this weather, but orders are orders.
- It's a shame that such beauty has to be wasted, but orders are orders.
- But orders are orders, and it was a matter of honor.
- I'm really sorry about this but orders are orders,’ Tommy said with a slight smile.

order to view

An estate agent's request to an occupier to allow inspection of their premises by a client.

out of order

1(of a device) not working properly or at all.
the elevator was out of order
Example sentencesExamples
- My brother-in-law had a phone installed three weeks ago and it has been out of order longer than it has been usable.
- BT told us our telephone would be out of order until July 8.
- The elevator is constantly out of order; nobody has ever tried to fix it.
- Mind you, my nearest proper cashpoint - at the station - has been out of order for six months.
- The idea of climbing five stories of stairs made his head spin, and the elevator was out of order.
- BT engineers are working round the clock to restore services, but about 2,400 lines are still out of order.
- Housing bosses have apologised to residents of a Bradford 14 storey tower block over a lift which has been out of order for seven months.
- Then when I got to the office I found that the lift was out of order and that I'd have to climb all the way to the 4th floor using the stairs.
- They also claim residents dare not use the lift because it continually breaks down, and most of the intercoms linked to the building's entry system are out of order.
- The bleedin ticket machine is out of order too.
Synonyms
not working, not in working order, not functioning, broken, broken-down, out of service, out of commission, acting up, unserviceable, faulty, defective, non-functional, inoperative, in disrepair
2Not in the correct sequence.
he recorded the seven pieces out of order
Example sentencesExamples
- His books do read best chronologically as he always has running storylines, but I've read them out of order and it's no great problem.
- This is an old man remembering his life: scenes appear out of order.
- It is like being in an art gallery; the reader can read the pieces in order, out of order, any way that excites.
- It feels like the sequence is out of order with the rest of the movie.
- At Midway in 1942, Navy pilots trained to attack in a precisely choreographed sequence ignored their instructions and attacked out of order.
- At first I thought it might be a problem with sequencing so I tried playing the record out of order.
- The only way I could be more intrigued with it would probably be if it had been released in bits and pieces, out of order, and left as clues all over the internet.
- It was Fiona's first day at Nursery, so his weekday morning routine was out of order already, and I put much of his bad humour down to that fact.
3Not according to the rules of a meeting, legislative assembly, etc.
he ruled the objection out of order
Example sentencesExamples
- Despite being ruled out of order on several occasions Dr Cowley continued to address the point and was eventually dismissed amid uproar.
- An earlier request by his supporters for an extraordinary general meeting was ruled out of order because it had not been submitted in accordance with party rules.
- I ruled subsequent interjections out of order.
- I think that remark should be ruled out of order.
- The amendments in the name of Dr Nick Smith have been ruled out of order as they are inconsistent with the previous decision of the Committee.
- Someone attempted to ask a question and initially the Speaker in his wisdom ruled it out of order, but upon reflection he allowed it.
- Even if that point were correct, I suggest that the question is out of order on another ground.
- The word ‘duplicitous’ has been ruled out of order on a number of occasions in this House, and my view is that the expression the member used is so close to that as to be the same.
- In the past, moves to protect the environment have been ruled out of order because of trade legislation.
- The Republicans, ruling the amendment out of order, defeated it in a party-line vote of 222-200.
1. 3.1British informal (of a person or their behaviour) unacceptable or wrong.
  Chris was well out of order
  Example sentencesExamples
  A 15 per cent council tax rise is well out of order, especially if it includes spending £2.7 million on an art museum.
  Some of the things he was saying concerning the Make Poverty History Campaign were completely out of order.
  ‘They were totally out of order in the way they spoke to everybody,’ he said.
  O'Connell was out of order and deserved the red card.
  Mind you, as an old man I'd say this was well out of order.
  His behaviour in front of the children was out of order.
  The referee stopped the fight early and he was out of order because I could have carried on.
  A Warminster man admitted his drunken behaviour had been out of order when he appeared before magistrates.
  There's going to be a little comeback this time, because enough of us feel that Senior Manager is bang out of order on several counts.
  He walked close up to the manager and said: ‘You're out of order.’
  Synonyms
  unacceptable, unfair, unjust, unjustified, uncalled for, below the belt, out of turn, not done, unreasonable, unwarranted, unnecessary, wrong, beyond the pale, improper, irregular

to order

According to a customer's particular requirements.
the jumpers are knitted to order
Example sentencesExamples
- Service is meticulous and as far as we could tell the food was prepared to order.
- Thieves have been snatching luxury cars in Bedford to order, police are warning.
- Rare pieces are stolen to order by gangs who use the works to launder money.
- Clearly our choices were being cooked to order so there was a delay before the food arrived.
- More memorable, however, is the gutsy food, cooked to order and served at a relaxed pace.
- A gang of thieves who steal items to order have struck at a pine furniture shop for the second time.
- He thinks the animals were stolen to order - but the rustlers bungled the job in the dark.
- The gang cruised the streets to find high performance luxury cars stolen to order for the job.
- It is likely the jewels were stolen to order, and they could well have been offloaded by now.
- Experts believe some of the football memorabilia could have been stolen to order.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French ordre, from Latin ordo, ordin- 'row, series, rank'.

An early meaning of order, which comes from Latin ordo ‘row, series, rank’, was an institution founded by a ruler to honour people. The Order of the Garter, the highest order of English knighthood, was established by Edward III in around 1344. According to tradition, the garter was that of the Countess of Salisbury, which fell off while she was dancing with the king. To spare her blushes he promptly picked up the garter and put it on his own leg, saying ‘Honi soit qui mal y pense’ (shame be to him who thinks evil of it), which was adopted as the motto of the order. Order was also used to mean a rank, such as priest or bishop, in the Christian Church, which gave us the expression take orders for someone who becomes a priest. In the 16th century out of order meant ‘not in normal sequence’. The meaning was gradually extended to mean ‘not in a settled condition’, and by the 18th century to ‘not in good health’. Finally it came to be used of machinery that was not working, or behaviour that was seen as unacceptable. The sense of the word to mean ‘a statement telling someone to do something’ is found from the 16th century. By the 18th century doctor's orders had established itself as a term for an instruction from your doctor that had to be obeyed. Charles Dickens, in a letter of January 1841, wrote that: ‘I have been obliged to make up my mind—on the doctor's orders—to stay at home this evening.’
The Latin word ordo also gave us ordinary (Late Middle English) originally ‘orderly’, ordain (Middle English), ordinance (Middle English) ‘an authoritative order’, and ordnance (Late Middle English). In the army now ordnance refers to mounted guns or artillery, but in earlier days it was also used for the official body responsible for the supply of military equipment. In 1791 the official in charge, known as the Master-General of the Ordnance, was told to organize an official survey of the south coast of England to the scale of an inch to a mile, in anticipation of a French invasion. This grew into a series covering the whole of Great Britain and Ireland and was the origin of the Ordnance Survey, which today prepares large-scale detailed maps of the United Kingdom.

Rhymes

awarder, boarder, border, defrauder, hoarder, Korda, marauder, recorder, sordor, warder

Definition of order in US English:

order

nounˈɔrdərˈôrdər

1The arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method.
I filed the cards in alphabetical order
Example sentencesExamples
- It highlights the top 10 Windows and top 10 Unix issues in their relative order of importance.
- Dignitaries were seated in alphabetical order, according to their countries.
- Most were lined up at the back of the desk, arranged in alphabetical order by author.
- Entitled That's Life, the book has been written to no orthodox chronological order or set pattern.
- Legal requirements oblige voters to indicate a vote, in order of preference, to every candidate on the ballot paper.
- The exhibition is organized in chronological order.
- The author has selected and arranged the music compositions in order of complexity and structural content.
- If there are no children and no spouse then parents, brothers and sisters, and more distant relatives roughly in that order will benefit.
- The choice of topics and the order of their presentation clearly received careful attention.
- Tobias shoved the first few books onto the shelves, not caring if they were in the correct order or not.
- A stroke can affect your ability to read and write and even if you can talk, sometimes the words don't come out in the correct order.
- These activities and events are not listed in order of importance.
- She shipped in a huge library of books and arranged all 600 of them into alphabetical order.
- First, write down your goals in order of priority and then set up a timeline to achieve them.
- According to the evolutionary sequence, the biblical order of creation is all wrong.
- In interests of fairness, and to avoid any suggestion of judgement from me, the pieces are presented in alphabetical order.
- They serial numbers weren't in sequential order.
- Three criticisms can be made of the present rules, which are as follows in ascending order of gravity.
- The names are in alphabetical order and first, second and third places will be announced on the night of the ceremony.
- Houses are listed in descending order of price, but it is up to web users to discover this for themselves.
Synonyms
sequence, arrangement, organization, disposition, structure, system, series, succession
1. 1.1 A state in which everything is in its correct or appropriate place.
  she tried to put her shattered thoughts into some semblance of order
  Example sentencesExamples
  Unknown symbols flash past me as I look for a pattern, for underlying order beneath seeming chaos.
  To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
  The Victorians brought order to everything - scientific research included.
  The law has to bring some order into the relationship between cyclists and pedestrians, which at the moment is in complete chaos.
  Only from above, from a great height, can the logic, pattern and essential order of this garden be perceived.
  It is one of the least known, yet most powerful, devices for achieving pattern and order in the world.
  He had to create order and purpose in the midst of a terrible chaos.
  The general atmosphere was one of businesslike order and purpose.
  One day I'll reorganise the sections into some semblance of order.
  Nana's extreme love for order sort of explains my mom's fanaticism with cleanliness.
  A new approach might try to impose some order, codifying the rules by which Britain is governed.
  Thousands of commuters faced the prospect of trying to get home as the initial chaos gave way to some semblance of order by mid-afternoon.
  Augustine saw order as the supreme manifestation of providence.
  Cleanliness, punctuality, order and method are essentials in the character of a good housekeeper.
  By the time the Professor returned from the airport, all public areas of the house had been restored to a semblance of order and calm.
  Never stop telling them how important it is that your home have a sense of order about it.
  Synonyms
  tidiness, neatness, orderliness, trimness, harmony, apple-pie order
2. 1.2 A state in which the laws and rules regulating the public behavior of members of a community are observed and authority is obeyed.
  the army was deployed to keep order
  Example sentencesExamples
  Public order in the city is a matter best left to the authorities and the police.
  For those with no respect or regard for law and order, such rules and laws are irrelevant.
  Because once the law goes order collapses and the rule of the gun or the bully prevails.
  I believe in order and justice. I believe that people are by nature good.
  The real trick is to achieve order while upholding the rule of law.
  It is the duty of the courts to ensure that there is order under the rule of law.
  City prosecutors said they might charge the 21 with disrupting public order.
  When these efforts fail, city officials call in the military to help restore order.
  Law, on the other hand, is a particular method of producing order.
  They stand for order and the rule of law in an age when disorder and lawlessness are ever more widespread.
  Insp Thomas, of Southend Police, said the extra officers would probably be used to keep order in the pubs and nightspots.
  It was enough that the rules invoked were imposed on all citizens for the protection of public order.
  Questions have been raised over the possible impact the promotion of the NPA would have on public peace and order.
  To maintain public order, the authorities instituted a regular, salaried police force.
  After police restored order extra patrols were put on the streets in the area to reassure the public.
  As long as the public identifies order with law, it will believe that an orderly society is impossible without the law the state provides.
  Octavian from beginning to end insisted on peace and public order.
  Their job was to secure public order through terror, intimidation and violence.
  His country was occupied by Romans, and they had cruel methods of keeping order.
  Fistfights broke out in the hall and, for 20 minutes, police were unable to restore order.
  Synonyms
  peace, control, lawful behaviour, law and order, law, lawfulness, discipline, calm, quiet, peace and quiet, quietness, peacefulness, peaceableness, tranquillity, serenity
3. 1.3 The prescribed or established procedure followed by a meeting, legislative assembly, debate, or court of law.
  the meeting was called to order
  Example sentencesExamples
  She banged her hammer, noting that the meeting was over and calling the court to order.
  After the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, the meeting was called to order.
  The Lukhanji town council has adopted new rules of order to regulate the conduct of its council and committee meetings.
4. 1.4 A stated form of liturgical service, or of administration of a rite or ceremony, prescribed by ecclesiastical authority.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The order of service has not yet been finalised but a police family liaison officer has been asked to read a poem during the service.
  Much of the music and order of service had been chosen by the Princess herself.
  If you still have last year's order of service, please bring this along with you, as the hymn format will be similar.
  As I have been to many Evensongs since, the order of the service is now second nature.
  Synonyms
  rite, ritual, ceremonial, observance
2An authoritative command, direction, or instruction.
he was not going to take orders from a mere administrator
with infinitive the skipper gave the order to abandon ship
Example sentencesExamples
- Against Henry III's orders, Guise marched on Paris.
- The commander bellowed the orders and the men rushed to do the his bidding.
- Despite the doctor's order, she stood and went back to the window.
- The president hasn't issued any orders along that line yet.
- During World War II, a German army commander disobeyed orders to destroy the Ponte Vecchio.
- Once they were airborne, James turned on his radio to receive any last minute instructions or orders.
- He lives in Adelaide and has been under doctor's orders not to travel.
- They resigned in the face of threatened reprisals if they defied a government order to return to work.
- Arrested in France on the orders of British intelligence, he then fled to Switzerland.
- So where did this order come from - government or senior management?
- They are also worried that some soldiers opposed to the withdrawal will disobey orders to evacuate settlers.
- However Portugal was reluctant to stop trading with Britain, both for economic and political reasons, and Napoleon decided to send his armies to Portugal to force them to comply with his orders.
- Williams dropped his headset and grabbed his weapon, shouting orders the entire time.
- The navy pilots had orders not to fire unless fired on.
- He is under strict orders to keep the subject of his investigation under wraps, but one could hazard a wild guess that it will touch on matters political.
- The army, against orders, retreated south.
- Nobody likes taking orders or advice from others.
- Kennedy moved quickly down the line shouting orders to fire and reload.
- He said they had no choice but take to orders from above.
- She was at pains to stress that job losses and branch closures are hers to decide and are not based on orders from the Melbourne headquarters.
Synonyms
command, instruction, directive, direction, decree, edict, injunction, mandate, dictate, commandment
1. 2.1 An oral or written request for something to be made, supplied, or served.
  the company has won an order for six tankers
  Example sentencesExamples
  Now, factory workers place orders directly with suppliers via touchscreen computers at their work stations.
  Jim guarantees that within three weeks of placing your order, the product can be delivered.
  Online sellers also spend more money checking and processing orders.
  Just because a server is polite and brings you the correct order doesn't mean they deserve a tip.
  The factory is the biggest local employer, and many other local industries depend on orders from the firm.
  The books are destined to be bestsellers, with advance orders for over 400,000 already taken from booksellers nationwide.
  In the last week it has won orders worth more than £300,000.
  Colin dialed up a local pizza parlor and put in an order for five large pizzas.
  Now the National Books website receives millions of hits and processes tens of thousands of online transactions and book orders each day.
  A spokesperson confirmed that 40 to 60 people are to be employed on a short-term basis to meet production orders.
  On the export front, the showcasing of the car in the Auto Mechanika last year has resulted in good export orders and enquiries.
  The company expects orders to reach at least $2.5 billion for the whole year.
  Once you're seated, the waitress promptly takes your order and then serves the dish.
  Advance orders have now reached 1.8 million worldwide.
  The skinny waiter came back with the drinks and took our orders.
  With Christmas just around the corner, we are now taking orders for Christmas cakes and puddings etc.
  The waitress wrote down the orders and left with a smile on her face.
  The shop was humming with activity as waitresses whizzed to and fro, taking orders or delivering desserts to the customers.
  Last month the government confirmed an order for two aircraft carriers at a cost of £3 billion.
  Unaccustomed to such efficient and personal service I placed my order at once, sat back and waited.
  Synonyms
  commission, purchase order, request, requisition, demand, call
2. 2.2 A thing made, supplied, or served as a result of an oral or written request.
  orders will be delivered the next business day
  Example sentencesExamples
  I left the house in time to prepare the orders and get them delivered.
  It signed up its millionth customer in December, and delivered over a million orders in the run-up to Christmas.
  We are busy sourcing new products and shipping orders.
  However, the internet retailer has been dogged by claims that it left some customers without Christmas presents after failing to deliver orders on time.
  The book came today and was waiting on the kitchen table when Jill and I came in with six orders of well-done fried onion rings.
  The fact is that the company is still losing about £4 every time it delivers an order.
  After a tiring morning I come home and find that my postman had delivered my recent order from Amazon.
  The FTC takes a very aggressive stance towards retailers who fail to deliver orders on time.
  We only deliver an order once the payment is cleared.
  Suppliers are also left out of pocket when they think they are delivering high-value orders to a legitimate address and their subsequent invoices go unpaid.
  I was told that their next order wasn't being delivered for another six weeks, and that I'd be better ordering it online myself.
  In future, these businesses could lose big customers if they failed to prove they had appropriate plans to minimise disruption and ensure customer orders could be delivered.
  The self-assembly furniture retailer said it was unable to deliver orders on time due to supply chain problems.
  Customer service is also rated a top priority, with the company aiming to deliver 90 per cent of orders by the next day.
  A rise in the number of volunteers available to deliver orders has made it possible for the service to be extended.
3. 2.3 A written direction of a court or judge.
  a judge's order forbidding the reporting of evidence
  Example sentencesExamples
  He said the group had a good case to mount a legal challenge to the administration order but would waive its right to pursue litigation once the deal was done.
  To defy a High Court deportation order, he took sanctuary in the Church of the Ascension.
  A High Court judge made an order which will result in the twins being returned to Missouri in the United States where they were born.
  The court made no order for costs against the defendant.
  They were released from custody over the weekend on the orders of a District Judge at Manchester Magistrates Court.
  He was acquitted on the orders of a judge on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
  Gray was sentenced to a psychiatric and community service rehabilitation order of three years.
  If no other order of the Court is made tomorrow, I would expect that he will be released tomorrow.
  He was given a community service order and put on probation.
  The pair were given a shared custody order by a Pasadena court on July 27, 1999 with equal rights and duties.
  The judge will pass sentence in the new year when the businessman will face either a jail term or a lengthy community service order.
  The government is expected to apply for a special administration order under the Railways Act in the High Court over the next few days.
  However, added the mayor, city hall will naturally respect the court's order, whatever it may be.
  He was also made the subject of a legal order, which forced him to refrain from any discussion whatsoever of the proceedings.
  I have not seen any order of the court with regard to Dr Smith, nor have I seen the court's judgment.
  He was sentenced to a 200-hour community service order and was banned from driving for 18 months.
  ‘The government has always respected and executed orders of this Court,’ they wrote.
  The lawsuit has been put on hold by the administration order which protects a company from its creditors and gives it time to put together a rescue package.
  The above conditions may be varied or deleted by further order of the court.
  The judge will consider the confiscation order in relation to his recent convictions.
  Synonyms
  arbitration, refereeing, umpiring
4. 2.4 A written direction to pay money or deliver property.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The clearing banks' role in the payment and collection of cheques and other payment orders is directly related to one of their main activities, namely the maintenance of current accounts.
  He was held to be in breach of fiduciary duty when he misappropriated funds from the company's bank account by fraudulently altering the name of the payee on a payment order addressed to the bank.
  Synonyms
  voucher, coupon, chit, docket, stamp, credit note, iou
3A particular social, political, or economic system.
if only the peasantry would rise up against the established order
the social order of Britain
Example sentencesExamples
- The incoming industrial order is designed to correct the shortcomings of the old.
- A political order that produces a choice between two such candidates has lost all credibility.
- Furthermore, the very presence of democratic institutions and values can be seen as a threat by some established social and political orders.
- the very fact of the revolution - a popular rising against the established order - placed Louis XVI beyond the scope and protection of the new regime.
- An important political component of the post-war order was the United Nations.
- These policies have usurped traditional Maori authority while denying Maori a significant position in the newly established political and social orders.
- A new political and economic order was quickly installed.
- They aimed to achieve a complete break from the old order of nation-states, and to create a federal constitution for Europe.
- As to the economic order, there was to be no going back, and no second chances.
- The fall of the old order was seen to be in the best interests of the country.
- New technology always challenges the established order, and eventually a new equilibrium is reached.
- He has his mind on overthrowing the old order, she is concerned with her own emotional and financial security.
- Continued concern about its effect on the world's future political and economic order still remains.
- The most radical workers and peasants, and many of the young conscripts, wanted to use their strength to overthrow the old order.
- This partially explains why the powerful challenges to the corporate order in the postwar period overwhelmingly failed.
- It is rather a political order which supports the survival of weak states.
- There is a real revolutionary process under way, aiming to overturn the existing political and economic order.
- The victories of the Revolutionary and imperial armies reshaped the European order.
- They want a social, political and economic order in which they can feel safe - and empowered.
- It would surely work to maintain the old order and to keep Everything In Its Proper Place.
Synonyms
system, class system, hierarchy, pecking order, grouping, grading, ranking, scale
1. 3.1often orders A social class.
  the upper social orders
  Example sentencesExamples
  The economic factors of renewed urbanization affected all orders of European society.
  Additional studies comparing how the war affected families of different social orders would undoubtedly shed more light on this question.
  The magazine was clearly bought by those of the lower social orders who sought to improve themselves, and such people got little encouragement from most of the intellectual community.
  They were by no means from the upper orders, these were street kids in Los Angeles.
  Concerned citizens became dismayed at the suffering among what they then called the lower social orders.
  As is well known, the months preceding the declaration of August 4 were filled with rancor between the commoners and the privileged orders.
  The medieval manor therefore sustained the three orders of medieval society: those who pray, those who fight, and those who work.
  Those farmers who remained on the land became more militant, resulting in the loss of power by the old rural upper orders.
  Such a vision certainly harked back to the Ancien Régime conception of a society of ranks and orders.
  They conclude that military service temporarily removed the young, labouring men who dominated the criminal orders, only to return them, duly brutalised, at the war's end.
  Synonyms
  class, level, rank, caste, grade, degree, position, station, category
2. 3.2 A grade or rank in the Christian ministry, especially that of bishop, priest, or deacon.
  Example sentencesExamples
  These two men struggled with the validity of Anglican orders and sacramental theology.
  In the past we've split over such things as the punctuation of the creeds, the orders of ministry and the nature of communion.
  I will look also at some intriguing hints that Rome may be reconsidering its position that Anglican ministerial orders are null and void.
  The diaconate is a full and analogous order of ordained ministry to which both men and women are called by God.
3. 3.3orders The rank or position of a member of the clergy or an ordained minister of a church.
  he took priest's orders
  See also holy orders
  Example sentencesExamples
  After taking orders in 1782, he became the perpetual curate of Barton-under-Needwood in 1783.
  Watson had been ordained a deacon in 1856 and he took priest's orders two years later.
  He was educated at Cambridge, took priest's orders, and became known as a preacher.
  He became a monk and may have taken deacon's orders.
4. 3.4Theology Any of the nine grades of angelic beings in the celestial hierarchy.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Angels, however, the lowest of the nine orders, do not have wings.
  Hierarchies and litanies were emphasized: the nine orders of the angels, the Joys and Sorrows of the Virgin.
4A society of monks, priests, nuns, etc., living according to certain religious and social regulations and discipline and at least some of whose members take solemn vows.
the Franciscan Order
Example sentencesExamples
- He entered the Jesuit order in 1726 going to the Jesuit College in Piacenza in 1728 to teach literature.
- For four centuries it was home to members of the Cistercian order, whose lives were dominated by manual labour and prayer.
- Mersenne continued his education within the order at Nigeon and then at Meaux.
- Among the religious orders, only the friars had a vocation that by its very nature embraced the seriously poor and, indeed, the utterly destitute in the regular course of events.
- With the exception of some religious orders in which monks vow to live in solitude, most of us need other people to add texture to our lives.
- He has attended several retreats at the abbey, run by the Catholic order of Benedictine monks.
- Luigi Guido Grandi was a member of the order of the Camaldolites.
- He considered joining a monastic order but was persuaded by his parish priest to enter the secular clergy.
- In 1600 he went to Salamanca, where he joined the Franciscan Order.
- A significant number of the monks have earned university degrees before joining the order.
- Between the ninth and eleventh centuries the Benedictines and other monastic orders expanded across Europe.
- In the past the members of strict religious orders took the discipline as a matter of course.
- The church might even consider limiting bishops to two five-year terms, as many religious orders do for their leaders.
- In the 1200s, members of new religious orders, called friars, began to work among the people.
- I joined the order as a First Degree member in October and have developed mixed feelings since then.
- Monks from the various orders in Europe had flocked to England to set up religious houses.
- It expelled religious orders from the country and disestablished the Roman Catholic church.
- There are many private schools, run primarily by Catholic religious orders.
- Catholic schools tend to be run by religious orders, such as the Holy Ghosts, Jesuits and Loreto nuns.
- Luxembourg has also traditionally been the home of a great number of convents and religious orders, a number that has dwindled since the last century.
Synonyms
community, brotherhood, sisterhood
1. 4.1historical A society of knights bound by a common rule of life and having a combined military and monastic character.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Only the strong leadership of John and the military orders saved the army at all; even so, thousands died that day
  The military orders, and the knights under King John put up a valiant defense and saved what they could of the army.
  Feudalism was abolished along with the Inquisition and the Church's military orders, and two-thirds of monasteries and convents were dissolved.
  The Order of the Knights Templar was formed during the crusades when many knights and squires set out for the Holy Land.
  Amongst the most famous of these crusader orders were the Order of the Knights Templar.
2. 4.2 An institution founded by a monarch for the purpose of conferring an honor or honors for merit on those appointed to it.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The order became defunct with the death of its last knight, HRH The Duke of Gloucester, in 1974.
  In 1998 he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour.
  He was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour by his second country in 1896 and a commander of the order in 1933.
3. 4.3 The insignia worn by members of an order of honor or merit.
4. 4.4 A Masonic or similar fraternal organization.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The lobby in Westminster is believed by many to have been based originally on a Masonic order.
  Freemasonry, though banned from time to time, flourished in Russia, and the Masonic orders had a wide range of members.
  Synonyms
  organization, association, society, fellowship, body, fraternity, confraternity, sorority, brotherhood, sisterhood, lodge, guild, league, union, club
5in singular The quality, nature, or importance of something.
with musical talent of this order, von Karajan would have been a phenomenon in any age
Example sentencesExamples
- It has more than adequate accuracy for that purpose and a high order of reliability.
- This is journalism of a high order in which the reporter creates a vista that involves the reader.
- The truth is that we are simply not good enough to beat a team playing rugby of a different order to ours.
- The reality of this world is that there is nothing for free and everything of this order comes at a cost.
- Science and technology can achieve impressive technological feats like going to the moon - but the real problems we face today are of a very different order.
- Talent of this order is rare, and I have a feeling that Paul is not through with surprising us.
- Her vibrancy, dramatic range and willowy elegance make her a classical ballerina of the highest order.
Synonyms
type, kind, sort, nature, variety, ilk, genre, cast, style, brand, vintage
1. 5.1with adjective The overall state or condition of something.
  the house had just been vacated and was in good order
  Example sentencesExamples
  The car was in excellent running order having been fully serviced by Jim, Juliette and Steffan the night before.
  It is now back in Wales, being restored to working order for service on the re-opened Welsh Highland Railway.
  We urge all readers to get their financial affairs in good order right now.
  When my room was in perfect order and everything was exactly how I wanted it we left the room.
  The field was in good order but the damp conditions hampered the accuracy of the passing between sides.
  They train police in the use of screening devices and ensure the equipment is in good order.
  Perform quarterly or annual home checkups to make sure everything is in working order.
  Away from the administrative side, Logan feels everything is in perfect order.
  The organizing committee have put much work and effort into making sure everything is in perfect order for the day.
  She is young and tough, the servants respect her, and everything is in impeccable order.
  Make occasional checks to ensure the equipment is in good order.
  If we don't keep the hinges oiled and everything in working order, it will just seize up on you.
  The local committee leave no stone unturned to ensure that everything is in perfect order for the event.
  All are very much appreciated, however it is important that all items should be clean and in good serviceable order.
  Paramount has done a fine job at making sure that everything is in working order in this picture.
  Synonyms
  condition, state, repair, shape, situation
6Biology
A principal taxonomic category that ranks below class and above family.
Example sentencesExamples
- This epoch is characterized by the appearance of all of the presently existing orders and families, and many of the existing genera of mammals.
- Genera are the smallest basic groups of related species; higher up on the taxonomic ladder, orders encompass hundreds of genera.
- There are approximately 650 to 700 extant species of cephalopods in two subclasses and five orders.
- The rhinoceros beetle is one of the largest members of the order Coleoptera.
- All spiders are members of the arachnid order Araneae, which is divided into two suborders.
Synonyms
taxonomic group, class, subclass, family, species, breed
7Any of the five classical styles of architecture (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite) based on the proportions of columns, amount of decoration, etc.
Example sentencesExamples
- They reflect his keen appreciation of modern design, married with his admiration for classical orders.
- Work out for yourself the differences between Corinthian, Ionic and Doric orders.
- The interior of Syon Hall has a Doric order with high attic and flat-beamed ceiling.
- The Pantheon in Rome is an ideal case study for understanding classical space, orders, composition, light, and character.
- These columns are of different orders on each storey (Tuscan at the bottom, then Ionic, with Corinthian columns in the third storey).
- The former asylum is a stately quadrangular building of stone with pillars of the Doric order.
1. 7.1 Any style or mode of architecture subject to uniform established proportions.
8Military
with modifier Equipment or uniform for a specified purpose or of a specified type.
drill order
Example sentencesExamples
- Behind them, dressed in review order, marched the infantry of the British Army.
- They normally wear Home Service review order dress as would have been worn on garrison duties and manoeuvres during the latter part of the nineteenth century.
1. 8.1the order The position in which a rifle is held after ordering arms.
  See order arms below
9Mathematics
The degree of complexity of an equation, expression, etc., as denoted by an ordinal number.
Example sentencesExamples
- The transient equations for the second orders of the identity coefficients are too complicated to solve.
- This integral was introduced in a paper on differential equations of the second order which he wrote in 1870.
- In the study of differential equations his methods of lowering the order of an equation and separating variables were important.
- The predictor variables were entered in the same order for both equations.
- His research was mostly on second order ordinary differential equations.
1. 9.1 The number of differentiations required to reach the highest derivative in a differential equation.
2. 9.2 The number of elements in a finite group.
  Example sentencesExamples
  He received his doctorate for a thesis entitled Contributions to the theory of integral functions of finite order in 1929.
  Cauchy had already proved that a group whose order is divisible by a prime p has an element of order p.
  He examines orders of elements and proves (although not in this notation) that there is a subgroup for every number dividing the order of a cyclic group.
3. 9.3 The number of rows or columns in a square matrix.

verbˈɔrdərˈôrdər

1reporting verb Give an authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
with object and infinitive she ordered me to leave
with direct speech “Stop frowning,” he ordered
the judge ordered a retrial
with clause the court ordered that the case should be heard at the end of August
with object her father ordered her back home
Example sentencesExamples
- British commanders were so confident they ordered their troops to walk slowly towards the German lines.
- Their commanding officer ordered them to stop because this was disrespectful.
- Every person is hereby ordered to immediately evacuate the City of New Orleans.
- The judge ordered that he and his family be placed in a witness protection programme.
- And Bingley magistrates yesterday ordered him to pay what he owed at a rate of £1, 000 a month.
- Bosses at Metrolink have also ordered ticket inspectors to take a tough line against anyone caught without a ticket.
- The judge also ordered the defendant to attend an alcohol awareness programme.
- Hartlepool magistrates yesterday ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the cannabis plants.
- He was taken before a judge last Thursday who ordered that he be held in custody.
- The government responded by imposing a state of emergency in late November and ordering its regular army to fight the rebels.
- ‘Stop the car!’ he ordered.
- Air marshals pursued and ordered the passenger to get down on the ground.
- The judge ordered an inquiry into the incident.
- Brown was also ordered by the court to pay £250 compensation and £65 costs.
- As the firefight continues, the commander orders his men to conserve ammunition.
- Officers will have the power to order gangs of yobs to disperse or face arrest.
- New chairman John Robinson has since ordered a review of compensation arrangements for senior managers.
- His behaviour is said to have included regularly dressing down officers in front of other staff and ordering them to do menial tasks when they were tired.
- ‘Begin the treatment,’ the doctor ordered sharply.
- Just when he felt he could go no farther, his lieutenant ordered the unit to drop their 100 lb backpacks.
Synonyms
instruct, command, direct, enjoin, give the order to, give the command to, tell, require, charge, adjure
decree, ordain, rule, legislate, lay down, dictate, prescribe, pronounce, determine
1. 1.1order someone around/aboutwith object Continually tell someone in an overbearing way what to do.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Despite being so much younger than her, he has a real public school cockiness and she loves the way he orders her about.
  I don't think so Mrs. Lincoln, no one orders me around.
  I'm as good as you are, pal; don't think ye can order me about just because I'm a waiter!
  Don't you hate it when he orders you around like that?
  It seemed that he took much pleasure in ordering me around.
  That was the other thing, Sonia never said please or thank you, as if my willingness to help somehow entitled her to order me around.
  She has, on repeated occasions, made my brother's life a misery by ordering him around like a kid and telling him off despite the fact that he's 29.
  You don't even know who we are, and you're ordering us around!
  And then an officer walks by me and starts ordering me around.
  Later, I saw him screaming at male crew members, ordering them about and obviously enjoying their subservience and the fact that they couldn't answer him back.
  Being a juvenile, he'd have to put up with people ordering him around for another three or four years.
  She resented the way the commander and his men ordered her around and treated her like a child.
  At the same time, a new beefed-up universities quango will take on a far stronger supervisory role, and academic leaders fear this will lead to ministers being able to order them around.
  You treat us as though we're nothing more than your lackeys; constantly ordering us around.
  She'd realized that Paige had a way of making people do things her way without ordering them about.
  I'm not ordering you around, it's just a suggestion.
  Look here Stevie, you don't order me around like that.
  The two boys take pleasure in ordering Johnny around.
  Synonyms
  tell someone what to do, give orders to, boss about, boss around, bully, lord it over, dictate to, ride roughshod over, dominate, domineer, browbeat
2. 1.2North American with object and complement Command (something) to be done or (someone) to be treated in a particular way.
  he ordered the anchor dropped
  Example sentencesExamples
  He ordered foreign investment and competition dropped.
  Expressing concerns about vandalism, the landlord ordered the artwork removed.
  They ordered the offshore funds returned to the United States.
  The court ordered him dishonorably discharged and sent to military prison for ten years.
  Synonyms
  instruct, command, direct, enjoin, give the order to, give the command to, tell, require, charge, adjure
2with object Request (something) to be made, supplied, or served.
my friend ordered the tickets last week
with two objects I asked the security guard to order me a taxi
no object are you ready to order, sir?
Example sentencesExamples
- The best thing about it was that if they didn't have a particular album, they'd order it for you from a catalogue.
- Jen had just ordered her pizza and went outside to enjoy the cold February air.
- She ordered the lobster, crab and prawn terrine.
- Five hundred copies have already been ordered in advance.
- When the maître d' took them to their table, Trent immediately ordered a bottle of red wine.
- In a nutshell, if you want to stay in the business, all your guests have to be treated like VIPs - not just the ones ordering champagne and foie gras.
- The director promptly ordered a glass of kir royale, and we followed his lead.
- I ordered goods for delivery by a specific date, which has since passed.
- It is always a good sign when there is so much you want to taste that you have great trouble deciding what to order.
- She snuck a glance in the direction of the bar but Nathan was busy ordering their drinks.
- I order shoes straight from Manolo Blahnik, or I buy them from Harrods.
- The waitress comes along to see if we would like to order a drink and he perused the wine list.
- Shoppers will be able to order groceries on the internet, then collect them at their leisure.
- She was 15 and alone in a country where she barely knew how to order a cup of coffee.
- I've just ordered a pizza to go and collect in 10 minutes or so.
- I ordered it out of the catalog two weeks ago and I haven't heard a word about it since.
- I almost always order a grilled sole served with green beans or spinach.
- He likes to be able to get by in new countries, and where better to start than to learn how to order drinks in bars?
- As we were waiting for our food, we decided to order a few pitchers of beer to pass the time.
- I went back to the bar to order the food, only to be informed that they finished serving food an hour ago.
Synonyms
request, apply for, send away for, send off for, write off for, put in an order for, place an order for, requisition
3with object Arrange (something) in a methodical or appropriate way.
all entries are ordered by date
as adjective in combination her normally well-ordered life
Example sentencesExamples
- It's in alphabetical order, because ordering them by preference would just be too difficult.
- In fact one of the characteristics of Dietrich as a thinker is the systematic way in which he not only orders his thoughts but his treatises as well.
- The exhibition catalogue is ordered by the artists' dates of birth.
- I have to order my notes once, twice, three times before I can start actually using them.
- As his previously well-ordered life slips away from him he loses control and his judgement deserts him.
- Jenny admits that with two small children, she has to order her time very carefully.
- She sat on the edge of her bed, trying to order her thoughts.
Synonyms
organize, put in order, set in order, arrange, sort out, straighten out, marshal, dispose, lay out, regulate

Phrases

in order

1According to a particular sequence.
Example sentencesExamples
- But on top of that, you have to put the chronology in order here.
- Keep the cheques in order, and cash them in order, and don't forget to tick each one off your list each night you get back to the hotel.
- Every item needed to be kept, in order, between the correct allocated colour coded dividers.
- Aaron scrambled to pick up the papers and put them in order.
- The history portion isn't always in order, which can be a bit confusing.
- It's all in place, and it's simply a matter of doing things in order.
- Although the stages of grief are described, they don't progress in order.
- As a historian, she can put things in order, illuminate the past and maybe right a few wrongs.
- He bet £1 and as the game progressed was dealt - in order - two red aces, a five and two more red aces.
- Each involves a series of specific steps, which must be done correctly and in order.
Synonyms
in sequence, in alphabetical order, in numerical order, in order of priority, in order of merit, in order of seniority
2In the correct condition for operation or use.
Example sentencesExamples
- Normally, as long as all the documentation is in order you will eventually be approved.
- Once that decision is made, airlines will then have a year to put their houses in order, before the new legal requirements come into force.
- The committee are sparing no effort in ensuring that everything is in order for the big day.
- We reviewed the data management procedures and found them to be in order.
- Sit down this weekend, get your affairs in order, and I promise you can trim hundreds of pounds, in some cases thousands, off your annual costs.
- Jon liked everything tidy and in order where he could find it, but James Hyde was a messy man.
- When purchasing land, one must be careful to ensure that the title deeds are in order and that the land has been correctly classified.
- And it's just very hard if you don't have your legal affairs in order.
- He noted with approval that the room was spotless, and everything was in order.
- A two or five-year plan is better than no plan at all and you need to make sure your finances are properly in order before making a move.
- Employers are only required to ask if workers' papers are in order.
Synonyms
tidy, neat, neat and tidy, orderly, straight, trim, shipshape, shipshape and bristol fashion, in apple-pie order, spick and span
3In accordance with the rules of procedure at a meeting, legislative assembly, etc.
Example sentencesExamples
- There were comments made in that point of order that were not in order.
- Did that mean that he had authority to cast it, and that the vote was in order?
- The Speaker ruled at the time that my comments were in order and that the member should withdraw.
- But the Assembly has now determined that the Bluestone decision is quite in order and will not need further examination.
- But ultimately it is the Speaker who must rule upon whether a question is in order.
- The Minister is responsible for his legislation, and therefore the question was in order.
- Last week it was not in order for the Minister even to find out that simple detail.
- My recollection is that one supplementary question was ruled as being in order on that particular day.
- Just yesterday that word was ruled in order when it was used by a Minister in answering a question in this House.
- I listened to Mr Mallard's question, which was not in order, and I did not allow it.
Synonyms
permissible, permitted, allowed, allowable, admissible, acceptable
1. 3.1Appropriate in the circumstances.
  a little bit of flattery was now in order
  Example sentencesExamples
  To understand the goals and significance of Gravity Probe B, a brief dip into the history of physics is in order.
  A call to the Advertising Standards Authority could be in order.
  For the reasons behind my mirth, a little history lesson is in order.
  To put things in perspective a quick historical comparison is in order.
  Perhaps a quick, yet enlightening, history lesson is in order.
  It occurred to me at about 3am, as I lay in bed with a raging fever and hacking cough, that perhaps a visit to a doctor was in order.
  Maybe some professional expert opinions are in order here.
  The errors in your article were significant enough that printing a correction, or at least this letter, is in order.
  A little modesty or circumspection would be in order here.
  After six years of a strong dollar, a correction might be in order.
  Synonyms
  appropriate, fitting, suitable, right, correct, proper

in order for (or that)

So that.
employees must be committed to the change in order for it to succeed
Example sentencesExamples
- The police had to close two lanes of the carriageway in order for the wreckage to be cleared.
- Her arm will remain in a cast for a few weeks in order for her injuries to heal correctly.
- Councillors told us that in order for wild flowers to flourish the rich alluvial silt must be removed.
- All of these are valid questions, because in order for a bully to succeed he or she must have victims.
- She added the council was pursuing the acquisition of land and property along the route in order for the scheme to go ahead.
- This voucher should be given to the cashier at the Royal Pavilion in order for you to receive your tickets.
- Alexander feels that, in order for the legal system to work, people must have free access to it.
- However, unless your tenancy has run out you cannot be evicted in order for the house to be sold.
- I think in order for a record to be commercially successful it has to get exposure from press, radio and tv as well.
- Classes were cancelled after the school shut for a day and a half at the height of the crisis in order for security to be increased.

of the order of

1Approximately.
sales increases are of the order of 20%
Example sentencesExamples
- Since his return to work his income had substantially increased year by year such that by 1999 it was of the order of £425, 250 p.a. gross.
- It is reasonable to assume that in due course he will have an earning capacity of the order of £10,000 per annum, but that it will take three years before he is likely to achieve that level of earnings.
- The amount directly at stake is not especially large, the principal sum being of the order of $114,000.
- For any real impact to be made, reductions in emissions of the order of 60 per cent are needed now.
- We estimate that total area of infestation is only of the order of about 350 hectares and that's spread along about 60, 70 or so isolated populations.
- At this rate, inflation of the order of 10 percent is pretty much inevitable.
- The number of days taken as sick, and the cost, is of the order of 70 percent up on what it was for the same period of time last year.
- We're looking at the risk of destabilisation of the West Antarctic ice sheet, or a very rapid decay of the ice sheet, leading to sea rise over centuries of the order of 6 or 7 metres or so.
- The disease is prevalent worldwide and in 1993, the cost of health care for COPD was estimated to be of the order of $15 billion.
- In the late seventeenth century, the average number of copper coins minted annually was of the order of two to three hundred million; by the early nineteenth century this had increased eightfold.
Synonyms
roughly, approximately, about, around, just about, round about, or so, or thereabouts, more or less, in the neighbourhood of, in the region of, in the area of, in the vicinity of, something like, give or take, give or take a few, in round numbers, rounded down, rounded up
2Mathematics
Having the order of magnitude specified by.
Example sentencesExamples
- With N of the order of 100 for 20dB sensitivity improvement, the total work of acquisition rises to some five orders of magnitude greater.
- A spectrograph/diode array system accomplishes the detection with a signal-to-noise ratio of the order of 105.
- Integral-expressing K562 cells were pushed by a force of the order of 100 pN against surfaces coated with iibronectin fragments.

on order

(of goods) requested but not yet received from the supplier or manufacturer.
Example sentencesExamples
- The new Learning Zone has 15 new computers and four more are on order which are adapted for people with disabilities.
- Service is scheduled to begin in October 2005 and 29 more trains are on order.
- And congratulations on the book: I've got a copy on order today.
- The firm currently operates four vessels - three bulk carriers and an oil tanker - and has a fifth on order at Guangzhou Shipyard International.
- Further investment was planned with an extra 10 rapid-response vehicles on order on top of 18 already sent out on the roads in the last year.
- We've a new metal shed on order too, so hopefully that will arrive soon.
- They'd sold the last one that morning, but they put one on order for me, so I should be able to get it sometime next week.
- A county council spokesperson confirmed that new signs were on order and would be installed as soon as they arrived.
- He was not aware of how many buses the factory had on order.
- Paul Cheevers, District Manager for Iarnrod Eireann in Waterford said that the steel girders were on order and were due to be put in place over the weekend.

on the order of

1Approximately.
it's a small fee, on the order of $10
Example sentencesExamples
- Even if economic output shrinks by 2 % this quarter, productivity would still grow on the order of 2 %.
- Agricultural subsidies cost something on the order of $1 billion a day in Western countries.
- The percentage of people who are university graduates in this country is still on the order of perhaps 25 percent of the adult population.
- The whole operation appears to have cost on the order of $500,000.
- Private economists at Goldman Sachs expect the deficits will be on the order of $300 to $375 billion.
- If drugs were sold in a competitive market, and the government funded research, the savings would be on the order of $120 billion a year.
- Fahrenheit 9/11 has sold something on the order of 13 million tickets.
- Some estimates put the total cost of the storm, including both property damage and economic losses, on the order of $100 billion.
- The pack's annual operating budget is on the order of $2000.
- Her appearance fee was on the order of 10,000 yuan or more.
2Along the lines of; similar to.
singers on the order of Janis Joplin
Example sentencesExamples
- Mitchell grew up in a home where people on the order of Thornton Wilder, Dylan Thomas and T.S. Eliot came to visit.
- Winkler's film seems to aspire to a quirky social commentary on the order of American Beauty.
- While not a classic on the order of 1991, this was a memorable World Series, filled with some strange and often surreal moments.
- I don't think the current malaise is a catastrophe on the order of Black Monday.

Order! (or Order! Order!)

A call for silence or the observance of prescribed procedures by someone in charge of a trial, legislative assembly, etc.
Example sentencesExamples
- We have had the entire Government front bench calling out, and all you did was to call out ‘Order!’
- ‘Order! ‘the judge yelled again, this time striking her gavel against a small wooden block.

order arms

Hold a rifle with its butt on the ground close to one's right side.
Example sentencesExamples
- The three soldiers ordered arms and went on about their duties and the gates began to close.
- On the command ‘Sentries Pass,’ I saluted, ordered arms and stood at ease.

order of battle

The units, formations, and equipment of a military force.
Example sentencesExamples
- The purpose is to obtain information regarding an adversary's order of battle, capabilities, plans, attitudes, and intentions.
- In September 1943 she filed a stunningly accurate report on the German missile order of battle.
- They knew when it would occur and what the German order of battle would be.
- Few old county infantry regiments remain in the British Army order of battle, but the Duke of Wellington's Regiment is proudly celebrating that very status after 300 years.
- Perhaps ULTRA's greatest contribution to victory in the west was its cumulative accretion of details about the German order of battle.
- This is the Navy's premier means of maintaining their electronic order of battle.
- American historians were disputing basic issues, such as the enemy order of battle, decades after the conflict came to an end.
- Scobell is credited with providing valuable intelligence on Confederate order of battle, status of supplies, and troop morale and movements.
- Although originally set up to resolve problems arising from the interaction of the forces involved, the missions quickly adopted an intelligence collection objective - mainly to report on order of battle.
- Intelligence on both the Turkish order of battle and on the topography of Gallipoli was all but non-existent.

orders are orders

Commands must be obeyed, however much one may disagree with them.
Example sentencesExamples
- But orders are orders, and it was a matter of honor.
- It's a shame that such beauty has to be wasted, but orders are orders.
- But orders are orders, I'm sure after so many years, you understand.
- I'm really sorry about this but orders are orders,’ Tommy said with a slight smile.
- I don't see the point, it's not like the grass is gonna grow much in this weather, but orders are orders.

out of order

1(of an electrical or mechanical device) not working properly or at all.
Example sentencesExamples
- The bleedin ticket machine is out of order too.
- They also claim residents dare not use the lift because it continually breaks down, and most of the intercoms linked to the building's entry system are out of order.
- Then when I got to the office I found that the lift was out of order and that I'd have to climb all the way to the 4th floor using the stairs.
- My brother-in-law had a phone installed three weeks ago and it has been out of order longer than it has been usable.
- Mind you, my nearest proper cashpoint - at the station - has been out of order for six months.
- The elevator is constantly out of order; nobody has ever tried to fix it.
- The idea of climbing five stories of stairs made his head spin, and the elevator was out of order.
- BT engineers are working round the clock to restore services, but about 2,400 lines are still out of order.
- Housing bosses have apologised to residents of a Bradford 14 storey tower block over a lift which has been out of order for seven months.
- BT told us our telephone would be out of order until July 8.
Synonyms
not working, not in working order, not functioning, broken, broken-down, out of service, out of commission, acting up, unserviceable, faulty, defective, non-functional, inoperative, in disrepair
2Not in the correct sequence.
Example sentencesExamples
- It was Fiona's first day at Nursery, so his weekday morning routine was out of order already, and I put much of his bad humour down to that fact.
- The only way I could be more intrigued with it would probably be if it had been released in bits and pieces, out of order, and left as clues all over the internet.
- This is an old man remembering his life: scenes appear out of order.
- It feels like the sequence is out of order with the rest of the movie.
- At first I thought it might be a problem with sequencing so I tried playing the record out of order.
- At Midway in 1942, Navy pilots trained to attack in a precisely choreographed sequence ignored their instructions and attacked out of order.
- His books do read best chronologically as he always has running storylines, but I've read them out of order and it's no great problem.
- It is like being in an art gallery; the reader can read the pieces in order, out of order, any way that excites.
3Not according to the rules of a meeting, legislative assembly, etc.
Example sentencesExamples
- Someone attempted to ask a question and initially the Speaker in his wisdom ruled it out of order, but upon reflection he allowed it.
- An earlier request by his supporters for an extraordinary general meeting was ruled out of order because it had not been submitted in accordance with party rules.
- I think that remark should be ruled out of order.
- In the past, moves to protect the environment have been ruled out of order because of trade legislation.
- The word ‘duplicitous’ has been ruled out of order on a number of occasions in this House, and my view is that the expression the member used is so close to that as to be the same.
- The Republicans, ruling the amendment out of order, defeated it in a party-line vote of 222-200.
- Despite being ruled out of order on several occasions Dr Cowley continued to address the point and was eventually dismissed amid uproar.
- I ruled subsequent interjections out of order.
- Even if that point were correct, I suggest that the question is out of order on another ground.
- The amendments in the name of Dr Nick Smith have been ruled out of order as they are inconsistent with the previous decision of the Committee.
1. 3.1British informal (of a person or their behavior) unacceptable or wrong.
  he's getting away with things that are out of order
  Example sentencesExamples
  There's going to be a little comeback this time, because enough of us feel that Senior Manager is bang out of order on several counts.
  ‘They were totally out of order in the way they spoke to everybody,’ he said.
  Some of the things he was saying concerning the Make Poverty History Campaign were completely out of order.
  He walked close up to the manager and said: ‘You're out of order.’
  O'Connell was out of order and deserved the red card.
  A 15 per cent council tax rise is well out of order, especially if it includes spending £2.7 million on an art museum.
  A Warminster man admitted his drunken behaviour had been out of order when he appeared before magistrates.
  His behaviour in front of the children was out of order.
  The referee stopped the fight early and he was out of order because I could have carried on.
  Mind you, as an old man I'd say this was well out of order.
  Synonyms
  unacceptable, unfair, unjust, unjustified, uncalled for, below the belt, out of turn, not done, unreasonable, unwarranted, unnecessary, wrong, beyond the pale, improper, irregular

to order

According to a customer's specific request or requirements.
the sweaters are knitted to order
Example sentencesExamples
- It is likely the jewels were stolen to order, and they could well have been offloaded by now.
- Service is meticulous and as far as we could tell the food was prepared to order.
- Experts believe some of the football memorabilia could have been stolen to order.
- He thinks the animals were stolen to order - but the rustlers bungled the job in the dark.
- Thieves have been snatching luxury cars in Bedford to order, police are warning.
- Clearly our choices were being cooked to order so there was a delay before the food arrived.
- Rare pieces are stolen to order by gangs who use the works to launder money.
- More memorable, however, is the gutsy food, cooked to order and served at a relaxed pace.
- The gang cruised the streets to find high performance luxury cars stolen to order for the job.
- A gang of thieves who steal items to order have struck at a pine furniture shop for the second time.

by order of

According to directions given by the proper authority.
he was released from prison by order of the court
Example sentencesExamples
- I am writing this in Brussels on a Sunday when no private cars are allowed in the streets, by order.
- If the child is in care by order of a Court then it is the Court and local authority who make the decisions about who the child can see.
- The accused were brought from Lancaster to Barrow by order of the Home Secretary.
- Children under the care of a local authority by voluntary agreement or by order of a court often have poor physical and mental health.
- His microphone had been switched off, by order of the bench, but he carried on speaking.
- Services will be curtailed while fire doors are replaced, by order of the Health and Safety Authority.
- The Government must create a new wetland on the east coast by order of the European Court to replace two lost to development in Kent and Suffolk.
- He was released by order of an examining magistrate on 30 June after 44 days without access to judicial review or to his family or lawyer.
- Captain Leghorn, after registering five missions, was grounded by order of higher headquarters until after D-Day.
- In 2001, the company started firing union members by order of the government.

in order that

With the intention; so that.
she used her mother's kitchen in order that the turkey might be properly cooked
Example sentencesExamples
- I also recommended that she get a home WiFi network in order that she could use the laptop anywhere in the house.
- We have requested additional information in order that an informed decision can be made.
- Substantial increased funding will have to be provided in order that farmers receive fair and reasonable compensation.
- The bill aims to catch those who intentionally train people to be mercenaries in order that they can sell their fighting skills to other countries for profit.
- The match was brought forward from a 3.30 pm kick-off to 3pm in order that they could catch their flight back to East London last night.

in order to

As a means to.
he slouched into his seat in order to avoid drawing attention to himself
Example sentencesExamples
- I set up this blog in order to keep my friends and family informed of my time in Hanoi.
- Then there is the huge number of people who have borrowed to the hilt in order to secure a home.
- Previously they had to find a job and apply for a work permit in order to stay in this country.
- Also, do you need to have a credit history with a bank in order to take out a loan?
- We have velux windows in the office and in order to see out we have to scrape the snow off them.
- I pay road tax and other taxes in order to use the highway and this is now being denied.
- It is an individual sport where you have to handle the pressure in order to succeed.
- This creates a problem for a company that needs to maximise its profits in order to grow.
- It is also expected to shed jobs through natural wastage in order to keep costs down.
- Users must set up an online account in order to view, save and print documents.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French ordre, from Latin ordo, ordin- ‘row, series, rank’.

单词	order
释义	Definition of order in English: order noun ˈɔːdəˈɔrdər 1mass noun The arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method. I filed the cards in alphabetical order Example sentencesExamples If there are no children and no spouse then parents, brothers and sisters, and more distant relatives roughly in that order will benefit. The names are in alphabetical order and first, second and third places will be announced on the night of the ceremony. Three criticisms can be made of the present rules, which are as follows in ascending order of gravity. Most were lined up at the back of the desk, arranged in alphabetical order by author. Dignitaries were seated in alphabetical order, according to their countries. It highlights the top 10 Windows and top 10 Unix issues in their relative order of importance. In interests of fairness, and to avoid any suggestion of judgement from me, the pieces are presented in alphabetical order. These activities and events are not listed in order of importance. According to the evolutionary sequence, the biblical order of creation is all wrong. The exhibition is organized in chronological order. Tobias shoved the first few books onto the shelves, not caring if they were in the correct order or not. Legal requirements oblige voters to indicate a vote, in order of preference, to every candidate on the ballot paper. The choice of topics and the order of their presentation clearly received careful attention. First, write down your goals in order of priority and then set up a timeline to achieve them. She shipped in a huge library of books and arranged all 600 of them into alphabetical order. The author has selected and arranged the music compositions in order of complexity and structural content. A stroke can affect your ability to read and write and even if you can talk, sometimes the words don't come out in the correct order. They serial numbers weren't in sequential order. Houses are listed in descending order of price, but it is up to web users to discover this for themselves. Entitled That's Life, the book has been written to no orthodox chronological order or set pattern. Synonyms sequence, arrangement, organization, disposition, structure, system, series, succession grouping, classification, categorization, codification, systematization, disposal, form layout, array, set-up, line-up 1.1 A state in which everything is in its correct or appropriate place. she tried to put her shattered thoughts into some semblance of order Example sentencesExamples A new approach might try to impose some order, codifying the rules by which Britain is governed. He had to create order and purpose in the midst of a terrible chaos. Thousands of commuters faced the prospect of trying to get home as the initial chaos gave way to some semblance of order by mid-afternoon. To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. One day I'll reorganise the sections into some semblance of order. Cleanliness, punctuality, order and method are essentials in the character of a good housekeeper. The general atmosphere was one of businesslike order and purpose. Unknown symbols flash past me as I look for a pattern, for underlying order beneath seeming chaos. The Victorians brought order to everything - scientific research included. Never stop telling them how important it is that your home have a sense of order about it. By the time the Professor returned from the airport, all public areas of the house had been restored to a semblance of order and calm. Only from above, from a great height, can the logic, pattern and essential order of this garden be perceived. Nana's extreme love for order sort of explains my mom's fanaticism with cleanliness. The law has to bring some order into the relationship between cyclists and pedestrians, which at the moment is in complete chaos. It is one of the least known, yet most powerful, devices for achieving pattern and order in the world. Augustine saw order as the supreme manifestation of providence. Synonyms tidiness, neatness, orderliness, trimness, harmony, apple-pie order 1.2 A state in which the laws and rules regulating public behaviour are observed and authority is obeyed. the army was deployed to keep order Example sentencesExamples As long as the public identifies order with law, it will believe that an orderly society is impossible without the law the state provides. The real trick is to achieve order while upholding the rule of law. His country was occupied by Romans, and they had cruel methods of keeping order. After police restored order extra patrols were put on the streets in the area to reassure the public. City prosecutors said they might charge the 21 with disrupting public order. Insp Thomas, of Southend Police, said the extra officers would probably be used to keep order in the pubs and nightspots. For those with no respect or regard for law and order, such rules and laws are irrelevant. When these efforts fail, city officials call in the military to help restore order. I believe in order and justice. I believe that people are by nature good. Because once the law goes order collapses and the rule of the gun or the bully prevails. Questions have been raised over the possible impact the promotion of the NPA would have on public peace and order. They stand for order and the rule of law in an age when disorder and lawlessness are ever more widespread. To maintain public order, the authorities instituted a regular, salaried police force. It was enough that the rules invoked were imposed on all citizens for the protection of public order. Law, on the other hand, is a particular method of producing order. Octavian from beginning to end insisted on peace and public order. Their job was to secure public order through terror, intimidation and violence. Fistfights broke out in the hall and, for 20 minutes, police were unable to restore order. Public order in the city is a matter best left to the authorities and the police. It is the duty of the courts to ensure that there is order under the rule of law. Synonyms peace, control, lawful behaviour, law and order, law, lawfulness, discipline, calm, quiet, peace and quiet, quietness, peacefulness, peaceableness, tranquillity, serenity 1.3 The prescribed or established procedure followed by a meeting, legislative assembly, debate, or court of law. the meeting was called to order Example sentencesExamples After the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, the meeting was called to order. She banged her hammer, noting that the meeting was over and calling the court to order. The Lukhanji town council has adopted new rules of order to regulate the conduct of its council and committee meetings. 1.4 A stated form of liturgical service, or of administration of a rite, prescribed by ecclesiastical authority. Example sentencesExamples The order of service has not yet been finalised but a police family liaison officer has been asked to read a poem during the service. If you still have last year's order of service, please bring this along with you, as the hymn format will be similar. As I have been to many Evensongs since, the order of the service is now second nature. Much of the music and order of service had been chosen by the Princess herself. Synonyms rite, ritual, ceremonial, observance 2An authoritative command or instruction. he was not going to take orders from a mere administrator with infinitive the skipper gave the order to abandon ship Example sentencesExamples Arrested in France on the orders of British intelligence, he then fled to Switzerland. Despite the doctor's order, she stood and went back to the window. They resigned in the face of threatened reprisals if they defied a government order to return to work. He said they had no choice but take to orders from above. Once they were airborne, James turned on his radio to receive any last minute instructions or orders. The army, against orders, retreated south. During World War II, a German army commander disobeyed orders to destroy the Ponte Vecchio. So where did this order come from - government or senior management? They are also worried that some soldiers opposed to the withdrawal will disobey orders to evacuate settlers. The navy pilots had orders not to fire unless fired on. Nobody likes taking orders or advice from others. Kennedy moved quickly down the line shouting orders to fire and reload. She was at pains to stress that job losses and branch closures are hers to decide and are not based on orders from the Melbourne headquarters. He lives in Adelaide and has been under doctor's orders not to travel. However Portugal was reluctant to stop trading with Britain, both for economic and political reasons, and Napoleon decided to send his armies to Portugal to force them to comply with his orders. Williams dropped his headset and grabbed his weapon, shouting orders the entire time. The president hasn't issued any orders along that line yet. The commander bellowed the orders and the men rushed to do the his bidding. He is under strict orders to keep the subject of his investigation under wraps, but one could hazard a wild guess that it will touch on matters political. Against Henry III's orders, Guise marched on Paris. Synonyms command, instruction, directive, direction, decree, edict, injunction, mandate, dictate, commandment law, rule, regulation, ordinance, statute, fiat, diktat demand, bidding, requirement, stipulation summons, writ, warrant in Spanish-speaking countries pronunciamento in Tsarist Russia ukase informal say-so literary behest rare rescript 2.1 A verbal or written request for something to be made, supplied, or served. the firm has won an order for six tankers Example sentencesExamples Once you're seated, the waitress promptly takes your order and then serves the dish. On the export front, the showcasing of the car in the Auto Mechanika last year has resulted in good export orders and enquiries. With Christmas just around the corner, we are now taking orders for Christmas cakes and puddings etc. In the last week it has won orders worth more than £300,000. Now the National Books website receives millions of hits and processes tens of thousands of online transactions and book orders each day. The waitress wrote down the orders and left with a smile on her face. The company expects orders to reach at least $2.5 billion for the whole year. Now, factory workers place orders directly with suppliers via touchscreen computers at their work stations. The factory is the biggest local employer, and many other local industries depend on orders from the firm. A spokesperson confirmed that 40 to 60 people are to be employed on a short-term basis to meet production orders. The books are destined to be bestsellers, with advance orders for over 400,000 already taken from booksellers nationwide. Advance orders have now reached 1.8 million worldwide. Online sellers also spend more money checking and processing orders. Unaccustomed to such efficient and personal service I placed my order at once, sat back and waited. Last month the government confirmed an order for two aircraft carriers at a cost of £3 billion. Jim guarantees that within three weeks of placing your order, the product can be delivered. The skinny waiter came back with the drinks and took our orders. Colin dialed up a local pizza parlor and put in an order for five large pizzas. Just because a server is polite and brings you the correct order doesn't mean they deserve a tip. The shop was humming with activity as waitresses whizzed to and fro, taking orders or delivering desserts to the customers. Synonyms commission, purchase order, request, requisition, demand, call booking, reservation, application 2.2 A thing made, supplied, or served as a result of an order. he would deliver special orders for the Sunday dinner Example sentencesExamples The fact is that the company is still losing about £4 every time it delivers an order. We only deliver an order once the payment is cleared. The FTC takes a very aggressive stance towards retailers who fail to deliver orders on time. Suppliers are also left out of pocket when they think they are delivering high-value orders to a legitimate address and their subsequent invoices go unpaid. After a tiring morning I come home and find that my postman had delivered my recent order from Amazon. Customer service is also rated a top priority, with the company aiming to deliver 90 per cent of orders by the next day. The book came today and was waiting on the kitchen table when Jill and I came in with six orders of well-done fried onion rings. It signed up its millionth customer in December, and delivered over a million orders in the run-up to Christmas. A rise in the number of volunteers available to deliver orders has made it possible for the service to be extended. In future, these businesses could lose big customers if they failed to prove they had appropriate plans to minimise disruption and ensure customer orders could be delivered. I was told that their next order wasn't being delivered for another six weeks, and that I'd be better ordering it online myself. I left the house in time to prepare the orders and get them delivered. The self-assembly furniture retailer said it was unable to deliver orders on time due to supply chain problems. However, the internet retailer has been dogged by claims that it left some customers without Christmas presents after failing to deliver orders on time. We are busy sourcing new products and shipping orders. 2.3 A written direction of a court or judge. she was admitted to hospital under a guardianship order Example sentencesExamples However, added the mayor, city hall will naturally respect the court's order, whatever it may be. He was acquitted on the orders of a judge on the grounds of insufficient evidence. A High Court judge made an order which will result in the twins being returned to Missouri in the United States where they were born. The judge will pass sentence in the new year when the businessman will face either a jail term or a lengthy community service order. I have not seen any order of the court with regard to Dr Smith, nor have I seen the court's judgment. The judge will consider the confiscation order in relation to his recent convictions. Gray was sentenced to a psychiatric and community service rehabilitation order of three years. To defy a High Court deportation order, he took sanctuary in the Church of the Ascension. He was also made the subject of a legal order, which forced him to refrain from any discussion whatsoever of the proceedings. He was given a community service order and put on probation. The lawsuit has been put on hold by the administration order which protects a company from its creditors and gives it time to put together a rescue package. The court made no order for costs against the defendant. The above conditions may be varied or deleted by further order of the court. ‘The government has always respected and executed orders of this Court,’ they wrote. He said the group had a good case to mount a legal challenge to the administration order but would waive its right to pursue litigation once the deal was done. The pair were given a shared custody order by a Pasadena court on July 27, 1999 with equal rights and duties. The government is expected to apply for a special administration order under the Railways Act in the High Court over the next few days. He was sentenced to a 200-hour community service order and was banned from driving for 18 months. They were released from custody over the weekend on the orders of a District Judge at Manchester Magistrates Court. If no other order of the Court is made tomorrow, I would expect that he will be released tomorrow. Synonyms arbitration, refereeing, umpiring 2.4 A written direction to pay money or deliver property. Example sentencesExamples He was held to be in breach of fiduciary duty when he misappropriated funds from the company's bank account by fraudulently altering the name of the payee on a payment order addressed to the bank. The clearing banks' role in the payment and collection of cheques and other payment orders is directly related to one of their main activities, namely the maintenance of current accounts. Synonyms voucher, coupon, chit, docket, stamp, credit note, iou 3A particular social, political, or economic system. they were dedicated to overthrowing the established order Example sentencesExamples The fall of the old order was seen to be in the best interests of the country. It is rather a political order which supports the survival of weak states. This partially explains why the powerful challenges to the corporate order in the postwar period overwhelmingly failed. Furthermore, the very presence of democratic institutions and values can be seen as a threat by some established social and political orders. As to the economic order, there was to be no going back, and no second chances. They aimed to achieve a complete break from the old order of nation-states, and to create a federal constitution for Europe. the very fact of the revolution - a popular rising against the established order - placed Louis XVI beyond the scope and protection of the new regime. A new political and economic order was quickly installed. There is a real revolutionary process under way, aiming to overturn the existing political and economic order. A political order that produces a choice between two such candidates has lost all credibility. They want a social, political and economic order in which they can feel safe - and empowered. The most radical workers and peasants, and many of the young conscripts, wanted to use their strength to overthrow the old order. It would surely work to maintain the old order and to keep Everything In Its Proper Place. New technology always challenges the established order, and eventually a new equilibrium is reached. These policies have usurped traditional Maori authority while denying Maori a significant position in the newly established political and social orders. Continued concern about its effect on the world's future political and economic order still remains. The victories of the Revolutionary and imperial armies reshaped the European order. He has his mind on overthrowing the old order, she is concerned with her own emotional and financial security. The incoming industrial order is designed to correct the shortcomings of the old. An important political component of the post-war order was the United Nations. Synonyms system, class system, hierarchy, pecking order, grouping, grading, ranking, scale 3.1often orders A social class. the upper social orders Example sentencesExamples The magazine was clearly bought by those of the lower social orders who sought to improve themselves, and such people got little encouragement from most of the intellectual community. Such a vision certainly harked back to the Ancien Régime conception of a society of ranks and orders. Additional studies comparing how the war affected families of different social orders would undoubtedly shed more light on this question. Those farmers who remained on the land became more militant, resulting in the loss of power by the old rural upper orders. As is well known, the months preceding the declaration of August 4 were filled with rancor between the commoners and the privileged orders. Concerned citizens became dismayed at the suffering among what they then called the lower social orders. The economic factors of renewed urbanization affected all orders of European society. They were by no means from the upper orders, these were street kids in Los Angeles. They conclude that military service temporarily removed the young, labouring men who dominated the criminal orders, only to return them, duly brutalised, at the war's end. The medieval manor therefore sustained the three orders of medieval society: those who pray, those who fight, and those who work. Synonyms class, level, rank, caste, grade, degree, position, station, category 3.2 A rank in the Christian ministry, especially that of bishop, priest, or deacon. Example sentencesExamples The diaconate is a full and analogous order of ordained ministry to which both men and women are called by God. These two men struggled with the validity of Anglican orders and sacramental theology. In the past we've split over such things as the punctuation of the creeds, the orders of ministry and the nature of communion. I will look also at some intriguing hints that Rome may be reconsidering its position that Anglican ministerial orders are null and void. 3.3orders The rank of a member of the clergy or an ordained minister of the Church. he took priest's orders See also holy orders Example sentencesExamples He was educated at Cambridge, took priest's orders, and became known as a preacher. He became a monk and may have taken deacon's orders. After taking orders in 1782, he became the perpetual curate of Barton-under-Needwood in 1783. Watson had been ordained a deacon in 1856 and he took priest's orders two years later. 3.4Theology Any of the nine grades of angelic beings in the celestial hierarchy as formulated by Pseudo-Dionysius. Example sentencesExamples Angels, however, the lowest of the nine orders, do not have wings. Hierarchies and litanies were emphasized: the nine orders of the angels, the Joys and Sorrows of the Virgin. 4A society of monks, nuns, or friars living under the same religious, moral, and social regulations and discipline. the Franciscan Order Example sentencesExamples Luigi Guido Grandi was a member of the order of the Camaldolites. He entered the Jesuit order in 1726 going to the Jesuit College in Piacenza in 1728 to teach literature. Mersenne continued his education within the order at Nigeon and then at Meaux. With the exception of some religious orders in which monks vow to live in solitude, most of us need other people to add texture to our lives. He considered joining a monastic order but was persuaded by his parish priest to enter the secular clergy. Luxembourg has also traditionally been the home of a great number of convents and religious orders, a number that has dwindled since the last century. Among the religious orders, only the friars had a vocation that by its very nature embraced the seriously poor and, indeed, the utterly destitute in the regular course of events. In the past the members of strict religious orders took the discipline as a matter of course. Monks from the various orders in Europe had flocked to England to set up religious houses. He has attended several retreats at the abbey, run by the Catholic order of Benedictine monks. In the 1200s, members of new religious orders, called friars, began to work among the people. In 1600 he went to Salamanca, where he joined the Franciscan Order. Catholic schools tend to be run by religious orders, such as the Holy Ghosts, Jesuits and Loreto nuns. Between the ninth and eleventh centuries the Benedictines and other monastic orders expanded across Europe. For four centuries it was home to members of the Cistercian order, whose lives were dominated by manual labour and prayer. There are many private schools, run primarily by Catholic religious orders. It expelled religious orders from the country and disestablished the Roman Catholic church. I joined the order as a First Degree member in October and have developed mixed feelings since then. The church might even consider limiting bishops to two five-year terms, as many religious orders do for their leaders. A significant number of the monks have earned university degrees before joining the order. Synonyms community, brotherhood, sisterhood 4.1historical A society of knights bound by a common rule of life and having a combined military and monastic character. the Templars were also known as the Order of Christ Example sentencesExamples Feudalism was abolished along with the Inquisition and the Church's military orders, and two-thirds of monasteries and convents were dissolved. The Order of the Knights Templar was formed during the crusades when many knights and squires set out for the Holy Land. The military orders, and the knights under King John put up a valiant defense and saved what they could of the army. Only the strong leadership of John and the military orders saved the army at all; even so, thousands died that day Amongst the most famous of these crusader orders were the Order of the Knights Templar. 4.2 An institution founded by a monarch along the lines of a medieval crusading monastic order for the purpose of honouring meritorious conduct. Example sentencesExamples In 1998 he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour. The order became defunct with the death of its last knight, HRH The Duke of Gloucester, in 1974. He was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour by his second country in 1896 and a commander of the order in 1933. 4.3 The insignia worn by members of an order of honour or merit. 4.4 A Masonic or similar fraternity. Example sentencesExamples The lobby in Westminster is believed by many to have been based originally on a Masonic order. Freemasonry, though banned from time to time, flourished in Russia, and the Masonic orders had a wide range of members. Synonyms organization, association, society, fellowship, body, fraternity, confraternity, sorority, brotherhood, sisterhood, lodge, guild, league, union, club denomination, sect rare sodality 5in singular The quality or nature of something. poetry of the highest order Example sentencesExamples Talent of this order is rare, and I have a feeling that Paul is not through with surprising us. Her vibrancy, dramatic range and willowy elegance make her a classical ballerina of the highest order. Science and technology can achieve impressive technological feats like going to the moon - but the real problems we face today are of a very different order. The reality of this world is that there is nothing for free and everything of this order comes at a cost. The truth is that we are simply not good enough to beat a team playing rugby of a different order to ours. It has more than adequate accuracy for that purpose and a high order of reliability. This is journalism of a high order in which the reporter creates a vista that involves the reader. Synonyms type, kind, sort, nature, variety, ilk, genre, cast, style, brand, vintage quality, calibre, standard 5.1with adjective The overall state or condition of something. the house had only just been vacated and was in good order Example sentencesExamples They train police in the use of screening devices and ensure the equipment is in good order. Perform quarterly or annual home checkups to make sure everything is in working order. The organizing committee have put much work and effort into making sure everything is in perfect order for the day. The field was in good order but the damp conditions hampered the accuracy of the passing between sides. The local committee leave no stone unturned to ensure that everything is in perfect order for the event. Make occasional checks to ensure the equipment is in good order. Paramount has done a fine job at making sure that everything is in working order in this picture. We urge all readers to get their financial affairs in good order right now. She is young and tough, the servants respect her, and everything is in impeccable order. When my room was in perfect order and everything was exactly how I wanted it we left the room. It is now back in Wales, being restored to working order for service on the re-opened Welsh Highland Railway. The car was in excellent running order having been fully serviced by Jim, Juliette and Steffan the night before. Away from the administrative side, Logan feels everything is in perfect order. All are very much appreciated, however it is important that all items should be clean and in good serviceable order. If we don't keep the hinges oiled and everything in working order, it will just seize up on you. Synonyms condition, state, repair, shape, situation 6Biology A principal taxonomic category that ranks below class and above family. the higher orders of insects Example sentencesExamples Genera are the smallest basic groups of related species; higher up on the taxonomic ladder, orders encompass hundreds of genera. This epoch is characterized by the appearance of all of the presently existing orders and families, and many of the existing genera of mammals. All spiders are members of the arachnid order Araneae, which is divided into two suborders. There are approximately 650 to 700 extant species of cephalopods in two subclasses and five orders. The rhinoceros beetle is one of the largest members of the order Coleoptera. Synonyms taxonomic group, class, subclass, family, species, breed technical taxon 7Any of the five classical styles of architecture (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite) based on the proportions of columns and the style of their decoration. Example sentencesExamples The interior of Syon Hall has a Doric order with high attic and flat-beamed ceiling. These columns are of different orders on each storey (Tuscan at the bottom, then Ionic, with Corinthian columns in the third storey). Work out for yourself the differences between Corinthian, Ionic and Doric orders. The Pantheon in Rome is an ideal case study for understanding classical space, orders, composition, light, and character. The former asylum is a stately quadrangular building of stone with pillars of the Doric order. They reflect his keen appreciation of modern design, married with his admiration for classical orders. 7.1 Any style of architecture subject to uniform established proportions. 8Military mass noun, with modifier Equipment or uniform for a specified purpose or of a specified type. the platoon changed from drill order into PT kit Example sentencesExamples They normally wear Home Service review order dress as would have been worn on garrison duties and manoeuvres during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Behind them, dressed in review order, marched the infantry of the British Army. 8.1the order The position in which a rifle is held after ordering arms. See order arms below 9Mathematics The degree of complexity of an equation, expression, etc., as denoted by an ordinal number. Example sentencesExamples This integral was introduced in a paper on differential equations of the second order which he wrote in 1870. The predictor variables were entered in the same order for both equations. In the study of differential equations his methods of lowering the order of an equation and separating variables were important. The transient equations for the second orders of the identity coefficients are too complicated to solve. His research was mostly on second order ordinary differential equations. 9.1 The number of differentiations required to reach the highest derivative in a differential equation. 9.2 The number of elements in a finite group. Example sentencesExamples Cauchy had already proved that a group whose order is divisible by a prime p has an element of order p. He received his doctorate for a thesis entitled Contributions to the theory of integral functions of finite order in 1929. He examines orders of elements and proves (although not in this notation) that there is a subgroup for every number dividing the order of a cyclic group. 9.3 The number of rows or columns in a square matrix. verb ˈɔːdəˈɔrdər 1reporting verb Give an authoritative instruction to do something. with object and infinitive she ordered me to leave with direct speech ‘Stop frowning,’ he ordered with clause he ordered that the ship be abandoned with object the judge ordered a retrial Example sentencesExamples British commanders were so confident they ordered their troops to walk slowly towards the German lines. Brown was also ordered by the court to pay £250 compensation and £65 costs. Bosses at Metrolink have also ordered ticket inspectors to take a tough line against anyone caught without a ticket. The judge also ordered the defendant to attend an alcohol awareness programme. ‘Stop the car!’ he ordered. He was taken before a judge last Thursday who ordered that he be held in custody. Every person is hereby ordered to immediately evacuate the City of New Orleans. ‘Begin the treatment,’ the doctor ordered sharply. Their commanding officer ordered them to stop because this was disrespectful. The government responded by imposing a state of emergency in late November and ordering its regular army to fight the rebels. Officers will have the power to order gangs of yobs to disperse or face arrest. New chairman John Robinson has since ordered a review of compensation arrangements for senior managers. Just when he felt he could go no farther, his lieutenant ordered the unit to drop their 100 lb backpacks. As the firefight continues, the commander orders his men to conserve ammunition. And Bingley magistrates yesterday ordered him to pay what he owed at a rate of £1, 000 a month. Hartlepool magistrates yesterday ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the cannabis plants. The judge ordered that he and his family be placed in a witness protection programme. His behaviour is said to have included regularly dressing down officers in front of other staff and ordering them to do menial tasks when they were tired. Air marshals pursued and ordered the passenger to get down on the ground. The judge ordered an inquiry into the incident. Synonyms instruct, command, direct, enjoin, give the order to, give the command to, tell, require, charge, adjure literary bid decree, ordain, rule, legislate, lay down, dictate, prescribe, pronounce, determine rare enact 1.1order someone about/aroundwith object Continually tell someone to do things in an overbearing way. she resented being ordered about Example sentencesExamples It seemed that he took much pleasure in ordering me around. And then an officer walks by me and starts ordering me around. Later, I saw him screaming at male crew members, ordering them about and obviously enjoying their subservience and the fact that they couldn't answer him back. That was the other thing, Sonia never said please or thank you, as if my willingness to help somehow entitled her to order me around. She resented the way the commander and his men ordered her around and treated her like a child. I'm not ordering you around, it's just a suggestion. I'm as good as you are, pal; don't think ye can order me about just because I'm a waiter! The two boys take pleasure in ordering Johnny around. You treat us as though we're nothing more than your lackeys; constantly ordering us around. She'd realized that Paige had a way of making people do things her way without ordering them about. Look here Stevie, you don't order me around like that. At the same time, a new beefed-up universities quango will take on a far stronger supervisory role, and academic leaders fear this will lead to ministers being able to order them around. Don't you hate it when he orders you around like that? Despite being so much younger than her, he has a real public school cockiness and she loves the way he orders her about. I don't think so Mrs. Lincoln, no one orders me around. You don't even know who we are, and you're ordering us around! She has, on repeated occasions, made my brother's life a misery by ordering him around like a kid and telling him off despite the fact that he's 29. Being a juvenile, he'd have to put up with people ordering him around for another three or four years. Synonyms tell someone what to do, give orders to, boss about/around, bully, lord it over, dictate to, ride roughshod over, dominate, domineer, browbeat throw one's weight about/around, lay down the law informal push about/around 1.2North American with object and complement Command (something) to be done or (someone) to be treated in a particular way. he ordered the anchor dropped Example sentencesExamples Expressing concerns about vandalism, the landlord ordered the artwork removed. They ordered the offshore funds returned to the United States. He ordered foreign investment and competition dropped. The court ordered him dishonorably discharged and sent to military prison for ten years. Synonyms instruct, command, direct, enjoin, give the order to, give the command to, tell, require, charge, adjure 2with object Request (something) to be made, supplied, or served. my mate ordered the tickets last week with two objects I asked the security guard to order me a taxi no object are you ready to order, sir? Example sentencesExamples As we were waiting for our food, we decided to order a few pitchers of beer to pass the time. The director promptly ordered a glass of kir royale, and we followed his lead. She ordered the lobster, crab and prawn terrine. I ordered goods for delivery by a specific date, which has since passed. I almost always order a grilled sole served with green beans or spinach. I order shoes straight from Manolo Blahnik, or I buy them from Harrods. When the maître d' took them to their table, Trent immediately ordered a bottle of red wine. Five hundred copies have already been ordered in advance. I went back to the bar to order the food, only to be informed that they finished serving food an hour ago. The best thing about it was that if they didn't have a particular album, they'd order it for you from a catalogue. Shoppers will be able to order groceries on the internet, then collect them at their leisure. I've just ordered a pizza to go and collect in 10 minutes or so. He likes to be able to get by in new countries, and where better to start than to learn how to order drinks in bars? She was 15 and alone in a country where she barely knew how to order a cup of coffee. She snuck a glance in the direction of the bar but Nathan was busy ordering their drinks. The waitress comes along to see if we would like to order a drink and he perused the wine list. In a nutshell, if you want to stay in the business, all your guests have to be treated like VIPs - not just the ones ordering champagne and foie gras. It is always a good sign when there is so much you want to taste that you have great trouble deciding what to order. Jen had just ordered her pizza and went outside to enjoy the cold February air. I ordered it out of the catalog two weeks ago and I haven't heard a word about it since. Synonyms request, apply for, send away/off for, write off for, put in an order for, place an order for, requisition book, reserve commission, contract for rare bespeak 3with object Arrange (something) in a methodical way. all entries are ordered by date her normally well-ordered life Example sentencesExamples I have to order my notes once, twice, three times before I can start actually using them. In fact one of the characteristics of Dietrich as a thinker is the systematic way in which he not only orders his thoughts but his treatises as well. It's in alphabetical order, because ordering them by preference would just be too difficult. Jenny admits that with two small children, she has to order her time very carefully. The exhibition catalogue is ordered by the artists' dates of birth. She sat on the edge of her bed, trying to order her thoughts. As his previously well-ordered life slips away from him he loses control and his judgement deserts him. Synonyms organize, put in order, set in order, arrange, sort out, straighten out, marshal, dispose, lay out, regulate group, classify, categorize, catalogue, codify, systematize, systemize, tabulate Medicine triage rare methodize Phrases by order According to directions given by the proper authority. he was released from prison by order of the court Example sentencesExamples If the child is in care by order of a Court then it is the Court and local authority who make the decisions about who the child can see. The accused were brought from Lancaster to Barrow by order of the Home Secretary. I am writing this in Brussels on a Sunday when no private cars are allowed in the streets, by order. The Government must create a new wetland on the east coast by order of the European Court to replace two lost to development in Kent and Suffolk. Services will be curtailed while fire doors are replaced, by order of the Health and Safety Authority. Children under the care of a local authority by voluntary agreement or by order of a court often have poor physical and mental health. Captain Leghorn, after registering five missions, was grounded by order of higher headquarters until after D-Day. He was released by order of an examining magistrate on 30 June after 44 days without access to judicial review or to his family or lawyer. In 2001, the company started firing union members by order of the government. His microphone had been switched off, by order of the bench, but he carried on speaking. in order 1According to a particular sequence. list the points you intend to cover and put them in order Example sentencesExamples It's all in place, and it's simply a matter of doing things in order. The history portion isn't always in order, which can be a bit confusing. Every item needed to be kept, in order, between the correct allocated colour coded dividers. Keep the cheques in order, and cash them in order, and don't forget to tick each one off your list each night you get back to the hotel. As a historian, she can put things in order, illuminate the past and maybe right a few wrongs. He bet £1 and as the game progressed was dealt - in order - two red aces, a five and two more red aces. Although the stages of grief are described, they don't progress in order. Aaron scrambled to pick up the papers and put them in order. Each involves a series of specific steps, which must be done correctly and in order. But on top of that, you have to put the chronology in order here. Synonyms in sequence, in alphabetical order, in numerical order, in order of priority, in order of merit, in order of seniority 2In the correct condition for operation or use. it is the liquidator's task to put the affairs of the company in order Example sentencesExamples A two or five-year plan is better than no plan at all and you need to make sure your finances are properly in order before making a move. Sit down this weekend, get your affairs in order, and I promise you can trim hundreds of pounds, in some cases thousands, off your annual costs. Employers are only required to ask if workers' papers are in order. He noted with approval that the room was spotless, and everything was in order. The committee are sparing no effort in ensuring that everything is in order for the big day. Jon liked everything tidy and in order where he could find it, but James Hyde was a messy man. We reviewed the data management procedures and found them to be in order. When purchasing land, one must be careful to ensure that the title deeds are in order and that the land has been correctly classified. And it's just very hard if you don't have your legal affairs in order. Normally, as long as all the documentation is in order you will eventually be approved. Once that decision is made, airlines will then have a year to put their houses in order, before the new legal requirements come into force. Synonyms tidy, neat, neat and tidy, orderly, straight, trim, shipshape, shipshape and bristol fashion, in apple-pie order, spick and span 3In accordance with the rules of procedure at a meeting, legislative assembly, etc. surely it is in order for Conservative Members to put various policy options to the Prime Minister? Example sentencesExamples I listened to Mr Mallard's question, which was not in order, and I did not allow it. There were comments made in that point of order that were not in order. Last week it was not in order for the Minister even to find out that simple detail. The Minister is responsible for his legislation, and therefore the question was in order. But ultimately it is the Speaker who must rule upon whether a question is in order. But the Assembly has now determined that the Bluestone decision is quite in order and will not need further examination. My recollection is that one supplementary question was ruled as being in order on that particular day. The Speaker ruled at the time that my comments were in order and that the member should withdraw. Just yesterday that word was ruled in order when it was used by a Minister in answering a question in this House. Did that mean that he had authority to cast it, and that the vote was in order? Synonyms permissible, permitted, allowed, allowable, admissible, acceptable 3.1Appropriate in the circumstances. a little bit of flattery was now in order Example sentencesExamples Maybe some professional expert opinions are in order here. It occurred to me at about 3am, as I lay in bed with a raging fever and hacking cough, that perhaps a visit to a doctor was in order. Perhaps a quick, yet enlightening, history lesson is in order. A call to the Advertising Standards Authority could be in order. After six years of a strong dollar, a correction might be in order. For the reasons behind my mirth, a little history lesson is in order. The errors in your article were significant enough that printing a correction, or at least this letter, is in order. To understand the goals and significance of Gravity Probe B, a brief dip into the history of physics is in order. A little modesty or circumspection would be in order here. To put things in perspective a quick historical comparison is in order. Synonyms appropriate, fitting, suitable, right, correct, proper in order for (or that) So that. staff must be committed to the change in order for it to succeed Example sentencesExamples Classes were cancelled after the school shut for a day and a half at the height of the crisis in order for security to be increased. She added the council was pursuing the acquisition of land and property along the route in order for the scheme to go ahead. Councillors told us that in order for wild flowers to flourish the rich alluvial silt must be removed. All of these are valid questions, because in order for a bully to succeed he or she must have victims. I think in order for a record to be commercially successful it has to get exposure from press, radio and tv as well. This voucher should be given to the cashier at the Royal Pavilion in order for you to receive your tickets. Her arm will remain in a cast for a few weeks in order for her injuries to heal correctly. The police had to close two lanes of the carriageway in order for the wreckage to be cleared. Alexander feels that, in order for the legal system to work, people must have free access to it. However, unless your tenancy has run out you cannot be evicted in order for the house to be sold. in order to do something With the purpose of doing something. he slouched into his seat in order to avoid drawing attention to himself Example sentencesExamples Previously they had to find a job and apply for a work permit in order to stay in this country. Then there is the huge number of people who have borrowed to the hilt in order to secure a home. Also, do you need to have a credit history with a bank in order to take out a loan? I set up this blog in order to keep my friends and family informed of my time in Hanoi. I pay road tax and other taxes in order to use the highway and this is now being denied. Users must set up an online account in order to view, save and print documents. We have velux windows in the office and in order to see out we have to scrape the snow off them. It is an individual sport where you have to handle the pressure in order to succeed. This creates a problem for a company that needs to maximise its profits in order to grow. It is also expected to shed jobs through natural wastage in order to keep costs down. of the order of 1Approximately. sales increases are of the order of 20 per cent Example sentencesExamples The disease is prevalent worldwide and in 1993, the cost of health care for COPD was estimated to be of the order of $15 billion. The amount directly at stake is not especially large, the principal sum being of the order of $114,000. In the late seventeenth century, the average number of copper coins minted annually was of the order of two to three hundred million; by the early nineteenth century this had increased eightfold. We're looking at the risk of destabilisation of the West Antarctic ice sheet, or a very rapid decay of the ice sheet, leading to sea rise over centuries of the order of 6 or 7 metres or so. Since his return to work his income had substantially increased year by year such that by 1999 it was of the order of £425, 250 p.a. gross. We estimate that total area of infestation is only of the order of about 350 hectares and that's spread along about 60, 70 or so isolated populations. For any real impact to be made, reductions in emissions of the order of 60 per cent are needed now. The number of days taken as sick, and the cost, is of the order of 70 percent up on what it was for the same period of time last year. It is reasonable to assume that in due course he will have an earning capacity of the order of £10,000 per annum, but that it will take three years before he is likely to achieve that level of earnings. At this rate, inflation of the order of 10 percent is pretty much inevitable. Synonyms roughly, approximately, about, around, just about, round about, or so, or thereabouts, more or less, in the neighbourhood of, in the region of, in the area of, in the vicinity of, something like, give or take, give or take a few, in round numbers, rounded down, rounded up 2Mathematics Having the order of magnitude specified by. Example sentencesExamples A spectrograph/diode array system accomplishes the detection with a signal-to-noise ratio of the order of 105. Integral-expressing K562 cells were pushed by a force of the order of 100 pN against surfaces coated with iibronectin fragments. With N of the order of 100 for 20dB sensitivity improvement, the total work of acquisition rises to some five orders of magnitude greater. on order (of goods) requested but not yet received from the supplier or manufacturer. the helicopters have been on order for two years Example sentencesExamples Paul Cheevers, District Manager for Iarnrod Eireann in Waterford said that the steel girders were on order and were due to be put in place over the weekend. Further investment was planned with an extra 10 rapid-response vehicles on order on top of 18 already sent out on the roads in the last year. Service is scheduled to begin in October 2005 and 29 more trains are on order. And congratulations on the book: I've got a copy on order today. They'd sold the last one that morning, but they put one on order for me, so I should be able to get it sometime next week. The firm currently operates four vessels - three bulk carriers and an oil tanker - and has a fifth on order at Guangzhou Shipyard International. A county council spokesperson confirmed that new signs were on order and would be installed as soon as they arrived. He was not aware of how many buses the factory had on order. We've a new metal shed on order too, so hopefully that will arrive soon. The new Learning Zone has 15 new computers and four more are on order which are adapted for people with disabilities. on the order of 1Approximately. it's a small fee, on the order of $10 Example sentencesExamples Even if economic output shrinks by 2 % this quarter, productivity would still grow on the order of 2 %. Fahrenheit 9/11 has sold something on the order of 13 million tickets. The percentage of people who are university graduates in this country is still on the order of perhaps 25 percent of the adult population. Some estimates put the total cost of the storm, including both property damage and economic losses, on the order of $100 billion. Her appearance fee was on the order of 10,000 yuan or more. If drugs were sold in a competitive market, and the government funded research, the savings would be on the order of $120 billion a year. The whole operation appears to have cost on the order of $500,000. Private economists at Goldman Sachs expect the deficits will be on the order of $300 to $375 billion. Agricultural subsidies cost something on the order of $1 billion a day in Western countries. The pack's annual operating budget is on the order of $2000. 2Similar to. singers on the order of Janis Joplin Example sentencesExamples Winkler's film seems to aspire to a quirky social commentary on the order of American Beauty. While not a classic on the order of 1991, this was a memorable World Series, filled with some strange and often surreal moments. Mitchell grew up in a home where people on the order of Thornton Wilder, Dylan Thomas and T.S. Eliot came to visit. I don't think the current malaise is a catastrophe on the order of Black Monday. Order! (or Order! Order!) A call for silence or the observance of the prescribed procedures by someone in charge of a meeting, legislative assembly, etc. Example sentencesExamples We have had the entire Government front bench calling out, and all you did was to call out ‘Order!’ ‘Order! ‘the judge yelled again, this time striking her gavel against a small wooden block. order arms Hold a rifle with its butt on the ground close to one's right side. Example sentencesExamples On the command ‘Sentries Pass,’ I saluted, ordered arms and stood at ease. The three soldiers ordered arms and went on about their duties and the gates began to close. order of battle The units, formations, and equipment of a military force. Example sentencesExamples In September 1943 she filed a stunningly accurate report on the German missile order of battle. Few old county infantry regiments remain in the British Army order of battle, but the Duke of Wellington's Regiment is proudly celebrating that very status after 300 years. They knew when it would occur and what the German order of battle would be. Scobell is credited with providing valuable intelligence on Confederate order of battle, status of supplies, and troop morale and movements. American historians were disputing basic issues, such as the enemy order of battle, decades after the conflict came to an end. Although originally set up to resolve problems arising from the interaction of the forces involved, the missions quickly adopted an intelligence collection objective - mainly to report on order of battle. The purpose is to obtain information regarding an adversary's order of battle, capabilities, plans, attitudes, and intentions. Intelligence on both the Turkish order of battle and on the topography of Gallipoli was all but non-existent. Perhaps ULTRA's greatest contribution to victory in the west was its cumulative accretion of details about the German order of battle. This is the Navy's premier means of maintaining their electronic order of battle. the order of the day 1The prevailing custom or state of affairs. on Sundays, a black suit was the order of the day confusion would seem to be the order of the day Example sentencesExamples Indoors, there is a feeling of isolation from the real world - it is almost like going back in time to a more genteel era, when peace and quiet and high standards of service were the order of the day. In the past, the US anti-doping system was a bit of a joke, with self-regulation the order of the day among professional sports. This is the stark reality in a city where cutthroat competition between textile businesses is the order of the day. The chef remains tight-lipped as to the recipe, but you can rest assured that, like everything at Grassroots, high quality, impeccable ingredients will be the order of the day. While everywhere else spending cuts are now the order of the day, Darmstadt has an annual arts budget of DM 58.3 million. As the grey skies descend once again, reminding us all that it's still really winter, navel-gazing has become the order of the day. The affair probably dates back to the hedonistic days, of the late Eighties and early Nineties when conspicuous consumption was the order of the day. BIG hair was the order of the day for models showing off British designer John Galliano's ready-to-wear collection at the end of Paris fashion week. Gentle pastel colours are the order of the day, and wherever you are in the building, you're close to a source of natural light. Stunning dresses in vibrant shades were the order of the day, with Teri Hatcher's Greek-style midnight blue number carrying off the style prizes. When the Great Depression came in 1929 and business failures became the order of the day Holt, like everyone else, was placed under tremendous pressure. Synonyms predominant, prevalent, current, customary, established, common, widespread, preponderant, in force, in effect, popular 2(in a legislature) the business to be considered on a particular day. orders are orders Commands must be obeyed, however much one may disagree with them. orders are orders and you're only doing your duty Example sentencesExamples But orders are orders, I'm sure after so many years, you understand. I don't see the point, it's not like the grass is gonna grow much in this weather, but orders are orders. It's a shame that such beauty has to be wasted, but orders are orders. But orders are orders, and it was a matter of honor. I'm really sorry about this but orders are orders,’ Tommy said with a slight smile. order to view An estate agent's request to an occupier to allow inspection of their premises by a client. out of order 1(of a device) not working properly or at all. the elevator was out of order Example sentencesExamples My brother-in-law had a phone installed three weeks ago and it has been out of order longer than it has been usable. BT told us our telephone would be out of order until July 8. The elevator is constantly out of order; nobody has ever tried to fix it. Mind you, my nearest proper cashpoint - at the station - has been out of order for six months. The idea of climbing five stories of stairs made his head spin, and the elevator was out of order. BT engineers are working round the clock to restore services, but about 2,400 lines are still out of order. Housing bosses have apologised to residents of a Bradford 14 storey tower block over a lift which has been out of order for seven months. Then when I got to the office I found that the lift was out of order and that I'd have to climb all the way to the 4th floor using the stairs. They also claim residents dare not use the lift because it continually breaks down, and most of the intercoms linked to the building's entry system are out of order. The bleedin ticket machine is out of order too. Synonyms not working, not in working order, not functioning, broken, broken-down, out of service, out of commission, acting up, unserviceable, faulty, defective, non-functional, inoperative, in disrepair 2Not in the correct sequence. he recorded the seven pieces out of order Example sentencesExamples His books do read best chronologically as he always has running storylines, but I've read them out of order and it's no great problem. This is an old man remembering his life: scenes appear out of order. It is like being in an art gallery; the reader can read the pieces in order, out of order, any way that excites. It feels like the sequence is out of order with the rest of the movie. At Midway in 1942, Navy pilots trained to attack in a precisely choreographed sequence ignored their instructions and attacked out of order. At first I thought it might be a problem with sequencing so I tried playing the record out of order. The only way I could be more intrigued with it would probably be if it had been released in bits and pieces, out of order, and left as clues all over the internet. It was Fiona's first day at Nursery, so his weekday morning routine was out of order already, and I put much of his bad humour down to that fact. 3Not according to the rules of a meeting, legislative assembly, etc. he ruled the objection out of order Example sentencesExamples Despite being ruled out of order on several occasions Dr Cowley continued to address the point and was eventually dismissed amid uproar. An earlier request by his supporters for an extraordinary general meeting was ruled out of order because it had not been submitted in accordance with party rules. I ruled subsequent interjections out of order. I think that remark should be ruled out of order. The amendments in the name of Dr Nick Smith have been ruled out of order as they are inconsistent with the previous decision of the Committee. Someone attempted to ask a question and initially the Speaker in his wisdom ruled it out of order, but upon reflection he allowed it. Even if that point were correct, I suggest that the question is out of order on another ground. The word ‘duplicitous’ has been ruled out of order on a number of occasions in this House, and my view is that the expression the member used is so close to that as to be the same. In the past, moves to protect the environment have been ruled out of order because of trade legislation. The Republicans, ruling the amendment out of order, defeated it in a party-line vote of 222-200. 3.1British informal (of a person or their behaviour) unacceptable or wrong. Chris was well out of order Example sentencesExamples A 15 per cent council tax rise is well out of order, especially if it includes spending £2.7 million on an art museum. Some of the things he was saying concerning the Make Poverty History Campaign were completely out of order. ‘They were totally out of order in the way they spoke to everybody,’ he said. O'Connell was out of order and deserved the red card. Mind you, as an old man I'd say this was well out of order. His behaviour in front of the children was out of order. The referee stopped the fight early and he was out of order because I could have carried on. A Warminster man admitted his drunken behaviour had been out of order when he appeared before magistrates. There's going to be a little comeback this time, because enough of us feel that Senior Manager is bang out of order on several counts. He walked close up to the manager and said: ‘You're out of order.’ Synonyms unacceptable, unfair, unjust, unjustified, uncalled for, below the belt, out of turn, not done, unreasonable, unwarranted, unnecessary, wrong, beyond the pale, improper, irregular to order According to a customer's particular requirements. the jumpers are knitted to order Example sentencesExamples Service is meticulous and as far as we could tell the food was prepared to order. Thieves have been snatching luxury cars in Bedford to order, police are warning. Rare pieces are stolen to order by gangs who use the works to launder money. Clearly our choices were being cooked to order so there was a delay before the food arrived. More memorable, however, is the gutsy food, cooked to order and served at a relaxed pace. A gang of thieves who steal items to order have struck at a pine furniture shop for the second time. He thinks the animals were stolen to order - but the rustlers bungled the job in the dark. The gang cruised the streets to find high performance luxury cars stolen to order for the job. It is likely the jewels were stolen to order, and they could well have been offloaded by now. Experts believe some of the football memorabilia could have been stolen to order. Origin Middle English: from Old French ordre, from Latin ordo, ordin- 'row, series, rank'. An early meaning of order, which comes from Latin ordo ‘row, series, rank’, was an institution founded by a ruler to honour people. The Order of the Garter, the highest order of English knighthood, was established by Edward III in around 1344. According to tradition, the garter was that of the Countess of Salisbury, which fell off while she was dancing with the king. To spare her blushes he promptly picked up the garter and put it on his own leg, saying ‘Honi soit qui mal y pense’ (shame be to him who thinks evil of it), which was adopted as the motto of the order. Order was also used to mean a rank, such as priest or bishop, in the Christian Church, which gave us the expression take orders for someone who becomes a priest. In the 16th century out of order meant ‘not in normal sequence’. The meaning was gradually extended to mean ‘not in a settled condition’, and by the 18th century to ‘not in good health’. Finally it came to be used of machinery that was not working, or behaviour that was seen as unacceptable. The sense of the word to mean ‘a statement telling someone to do something’ is found from the 16th century. By the 18th century doctor's orders had established itself as a term for an instruction from your doctor that had to be obeyed. Charles Dickens, in a letter of January 1841, wrote that: ‘I have been obliged to make up my mind—on the doctor's orders—to stay at home this evening.’ The Latin word ordo also gave us ordinary (Late Middle English) originally ‘orderly’, ordain (Middle English), ordinance (Middle English) ‘an authoritative order’, and ordnance (Late Middle English). In the army now ordnance refers to mounted guns or artillery, but in earlier days it was also used for the official body responsible for the supply of military equipment. In 1791 the official in charge, known as the Master-General of the Ordnance, was told to organize an official survey of the south coast of England to the scale of an inch to a mile, in anticipation of a French invasion. This grew into a series covering the whole of Great Britain and Ireland and was the origin of the Ordnance Survey, which today prepares large-scale detailed maps of the United Kingdom. Rhymes awarder, boarder, border, defrauder, hoarder, Korda, marauder, recorder, sordor, warder noun.1 phr. Definition of order in US English: order nounˈɔrdərˈôrdər 1The arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method. I filed the cards in alphabetical order Example sentencesExamples It highlights the top 10 Windows and top 10 Unix issues in their relative order of importance. Dignitaries were seated in alphabetical order, according to their countries. Most were lined up at the back of the desk, arranged in alphabetical order by author. Entitled That's Life, the book has been written to no orthodox chronological order or set pattern. Legal requirements oblige voters to indicate a vote, in order of preference, to every candidate on the ballot paper. The exhibition is organized in chronological order. The author has selected and arranged the music compositions in order of complexity and structural content. If there are no children and no spouse then parents, brothers and sisters, and more distant relatives roughly in that order will benefit. The choice of topics and the order of their presentation clearly received careful attention. Tobias shoved the first few books onto the shelves, not caring if they were in the correct order or not. A stroke can affect your ability to read and write and even if you can talk, sometimes the words don't come out in the correct order. These activities and events are not listed in order of importance. She shipped in a huge library of books and arranged all 600 of them into alphabetical order. First, write down your goals in order of priority and then set up a timeline to achieve them. According to the evolutionary sequence, the biblical order of creation is all wrong. In interests of fairness, and to avoid any suggestion of judgement from me, the pieces are presented in alphabetical order. They serial numbers weren't in sequential order. Three criticisms can be made of the present rules, which are as follows in ascending order of gravity. The names are in alphabetical order and first, second and third places will be announced on the night of the ceremony. Houses are listed in descending order of price, but it is up to web users to discover this for themselves. Synonyms sequence, arrangement, organization, disposition, structure, system, series, succession 1.1 A state in which everything is in its correct or appropriate place. she tried to put her shattered thoughts into some semblance of order Example sentencesExamples Unknown symbols flash past me as I look for a pattern, for underlying order beneath seeming chaos. To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. The Victorians brought order to everything - scientific research included. The law has to bring some order into the relationship between cyclists and pedestrians, which at the moment is in complete chaos. Only from above, from a great height, can the logic, pattern and essential order of this garden be perceived. It is one of the least known, yet most powerful, devices for achieving pattern and order in the world. He had to create order and purpose in the midst of a terrible chaos. The general atmosphere was one of businesslike order and purpose. One day I'll reorganise the sections into some semblance of order. Nana's extreme love for order sort of explains my mom's fanaticism with cleanliness. A new approach might try to impose some order, codifying the rules by which Britain is governed. Thousands of commuters faced the prospect of trying to get home as the initial chaos gave way to some semblance of order by mid-afternoon. Augustine saw order as the supreme manifestation of providence. Cleanliness, punctuality, order and method are essentials in the character of a good housekeeper. By the time the Professor returned from the airport, all public areas of the house had been restored to a semblance of order and calm. Never stop telling them how important it is that your home have a sense of order about it. Synonyms tidiness, neatness, orderliness, trimness, harmony, apple-pie order 1.2 A state in which the laws and rules regulating the public behavior of members of a community are observed and authority is obeyed. the army was deployed to keep order Example sentencesExamples Public order in the city is a matter best left to the authorities and the police. For those with no respect or regard for law and order, such rules and laws are irrelevant. Because once the law goes order collapses and the rule of the gun or the bully prevails. I believe in order and justice. I believe that people are by nature good. The real trick is to achieve order while upholding the rule of law. It is the duty of the courts to ensure that there is order under the rule of law. City prosecutors said they might charge the 21 with disrupting public order. When these efforts fail, city officials call in the military to help restore order. Law, on the other hand, is a particular method of producing order. They stand for order and the rule of law in an age when disorder and lawlessness are ever more widespread. Insp Thomas, of Southend Police, said the extra officers would probably be used to keep order in the pubs and nightspots. It was enough that the rules invoked were imposed on all citizens for the protection of public order. Questions have been raised over the possible impact the promotion of the NPA would have on public peace and order. To maintain public order, the authorities instituted a regular, salaried police force. After police restored order extra patrols were put on the streets in the area to reassure the public. As long as the public identifies order with law, it will believe that an orderly society is impossible without the law the state provides. Octavian from beginning to end insisted on peace and public order. Their job was to secure public order through terror, intimidation and violence. His country was occupied by Romans, and they had cruel methods of keeping order. Fistfights broke out in the hall and, for 20 minutes, police were unable to restore order. Synonyms peace, control, lawful behaviour, law and order, law, lawfulness, discipline, calm, quiet, peace and quiet, quietness, peacefulness, peaceableness, tranquillity, serenity 1.3 The prescribed or established procedure followed by a meeting, legislative assembly, debate, or court of law. the meeting was called to order Example sentencesExamples She banged her hammer, noting that the meeting was over and calling the court to order. After the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, the meeting was called to order. The Lukhanji town council has adopted new rules of order to regulate the conduct of its council and committee meetings. 1.4 A stated form of liturgical service, or of administration of a rite or ceremony, prescribed by ecclesiastical authority. Example sentencesExamples The order of service has not yet been finalised but a police family liaison officer has been asked to read a poem during the service. Much of the music and order of service had been chosen by the Princess herself. If you still have last year's order of service, please bring this along with you, as the hymn format will be similar. As I have been to many Evensongs since, the order of the service is now second nature. Synonyms rite, ritual, ceremonial, observance 2An authoritative command, direction, or instruction. he was not going to take orders from a mere administrator with infinitive the skipper gave the order to abandon ship Example sentencesExamples Against Henry III's orders, Guise marched on Paris. The commander bellowed the orders and the men rushed to do the his bidding. Despite the doctor's order, she stood and went back to the window. The president hasn't issued any orders along that line yet. During World War II, a German army commander disobeyed orders to destroy the Ponte Vecchio. Once they were airborne, James turned on his radio to receive any last minute instructions or orders. He lives in Adelaide and has been under doctor's orders not to travel. They resigned in the face of threatened reprisals if they defied a government order to return to work. Arrested in France on the orders of British intelligence, he then fled to Switzerland. So where did this order come from - government or senior management? They are also worried that some soldiers opposed to the withdrawal will disobey orders to evacuate settlers. However Portugal was reluctant to stop trading with Britain, both for economic and political reasons, and Napoleon decided to send his armies to Portugal to force them to comply with his orders. Williams dropped his headset and grabbed his weapon, shouting orders the entire time. The navy pilots had orders not to fire unless fired on. He is under strict orders to keep the subject of his investigation under wraps, but one could hazard a wild guess that it will touch on matters political. The army, against orders, retreated south. Nobody likes taking orders or advice from others. Kennedy moved quickly down the line shouting orders to fire and reload. He said they had no choice but take to orders from above. She was at pains to stress that job losses and branch closures are hers to decide and are not based on orders from the Melbourne headquarters. Synonyms command, instruction, directive, direction, decree, edict, injunction, mandate, dictate, commandment 2.1 An oral or written request for something to be made, supplied, or served. the company has won an order for six tankers Example sentencesExamples Now, factory workers place orders directly with suppliers via touchscreen computers at their work stations. Jim guarantees that within three weeks of placing your order, the product can be delivered. Online sellers also spend more money checking and processing orders. Just because a server is polite and brings you the correct order doesn't mean they deserve a tip. The factory is the biggest local employer, and many other local industries depend on orders from the firm. The books are destined to be bestsellers, with advance orders for over 400,000 already taken from booksellers nationwide. In the last week it has won orders worth more than £300,000. Colin dialed up a local pizza parlor and put in an order for five large pizzas. Now the National Books website receives millions of hits and processes tens of thousands of online transactions and book orders each day. A spokesperson confirmed that 40 to 60 people are to be employed on a short-term basis to meet production orders. On the export front, the showcasing of the car in the Auto Mechanika last year has resulted in good export orders and enquiries. The company expects orders to reach at least $2.5 billion for the whole year. Once you're seated, the waitress promptly takes your order and then serves the dish. Advance orders have now reached 1.8 million worldwide. The skinny waiter came back with the drinks and took our orders. With Christmas just around the corner, we are now taking orders for Christmas cakes and puddings etc. The waitress wrote down the orders and left with a smile on her face. The shop was humming with activity as waitresses whizzed to and fro, taking orders or delivering desserts to the customers. Last month the government confirmed an order for two aircraft carriers at a cost of £3 billion. Unaccustomed to such efficient and personal service I placed my order at once, sat back and waited. Synonyms commission, purchase order, request, requisition, demand, call 2.2 A thing made, supplied, or served as a result of an oral or written request. orders will be delivered the next business day Example sentencesExamples I left the house in time to prepare the orders and get them delivered. It signed up its millionth customer in December, and delivered over a million orders in the run-up to Christmas. We are busy sourcing new products and shipping orders. However, the internet retailer has been dogged by claims that it left some customers without Christmas presents after failing to deliver orders on time. The book came today and was waiting on the kitchen table when Jill and I came in with six orders of well-done fried onion rings. The fact is that the company is still losing about £4 every time it delivers an order. After a tiring morning I come home and find that my postman had delivered my recent order from Amazon. The FTC takes a very aggressive stance towards retailers who fail to deliver orders on time. We only deliver an order once the payment is cleared. Suppliers are also left out of pocket when they think they are delivering high-value orders to a legitimate address and their subsequent invoices go unpaid. I was told that their next order wasn't being delivered for another six weeks, and that I'd be better ordering it online myself. In future, these businesses could lose big customers if they failed to prove they had appropriate plans to minimise disruption and ensure customer orders could be delivered. The self-assembly furniture retailer said it was unable to deliver orders on time due to supply chain problems. Customer service is also rated a top priority, with the company aiming to deliver 90 per cent of orders by the next day. A rise in the number of volunteers available to deliver orders has made it possible for the service to be extended. 2.3 A written direction of a court or judge. a judge's order forbidding the reporting of evidence Example sentencesExamples He said the group had a good case to mount a legal challenge to the administration order but would waive its right to pursue litigation once the deal was done. To defy a High Court deportation order, he took sanctuary in the Church of the Ascension. A High Court judge made an order which will result in the twins being returned to Missouri in the United States where they were born. The court made no order for costs against the defendant. They were released from custody over the weekend on the orders of a District Judge at Manchester Magistrates Court. He was acquitted on the orders of a judge on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Gray was sentenced to a psychiatric and community service rehabilitation order of three years. If no other order of the Court is made tomorrow, I would expect that he will be released tomorrow. He was given a community service order and put on probation. The pair were given a shared custody order by a Pasadena court on July 27, 1999 with equal rights and duties. The judge will pass sentence in the new year when the businessman will face either a jail term or a lengthy community service order. The government is expected to apply for a special administration order under the Railways Act in the High Court over the next few days. However, added the mayor, city hall will naturally respect the court's order, whatever it may be. He was also made the subject of a legal order, which forced him to refrain from any discussion whatsoever of the proceedings. I have not seen any order of the court with regard to Dr Smith, nor have I seen the court's judgment. He was sentenced to a 200-hour community service order and was banned from driving for 18 months. ‘The government has always respected and executed orders of this Court,’ they wrote. The lawsuit has been put on hold by the administration order which protects a company from its creditors and gives it time to put together a rescue package. The above conditions may be varied or deleted by further order of the court. The judge will consider the confiscation order in relation to his recent convictions. Synonyms arbitration, refereeing, umpiring 2.4 A written direction to pay money or deliver property. Example sentencesExamples The clearing banks' role in the payment and collection of cheques and other payment orders is directly related to one of their main activities, namely the maintenance of current accounts. He was held to be in breach of fiduciary duty when he misappropriated funds from the company's bank account by fraudulently altering the name of the payee on a payment order addressed to the bank. Synonyms voucher, coupon, chit, docket, stamp, credit note, iou 3A particular social, political, or economic system. if only the peasantry would rise up against the established order the social order of Britain Example sentencesExamples The incoming industrial order is designed to correct the shortcomings of the old. A political order that produces a choice between two such candidates has lost all credibility. Furthermore, the very presence of democratic institutions and values can be seen as a threat by some established social and political orders. the very fact of the revolution - a popular rising against the established order - placed Louis XVI beyond the scope and protection of the new regime. An important political component of the post-war order was the United Nations. These policies have usurped traditional Maori authority while denying Maori a significant position in the newly established political and social orders. A new political and economic order was quickly installed. They aimed to achieve a complete break from the old order of nation-states, and to create a federal constitution for Europe. As to the economic order, there was to be no going back, and no second chances. The fall of the old order was seen to be in the best interests of the country. New technology always challenges the established order, and eventually a new equilibrium is reached. He has his mind on overthrowing the old order, she is concerned with her own emotional and financial security. Continued concern about its effect on the world's future political and economic order still remains. The most radical workers and peasants, and many of the young conscripts, wanted to use their strength to overthrow the old order. This partially explains why the powerful challenges to the corporate order in the postwar period overwhelmingly failed. It is rather a political order which supports the survival of weak states. There is a real revolutionary process under way, aiming to overturn the existing political and economic order. The victories of the Revolutionary and imperial armies reshaped the European order. They want a social, political and economic order in which they can feel safe - and empowered. It would surely work to maintain the old order and to keep Everything In Its Proper Place. Synonyms system, class system, hierarchy, pecking order, grouping, grading, ranking, scale 3.1often orders A social class. the upper social orders Example sentencesExamples The economic factors of renewed urbanization affected all orders of European society. Additional studies comparing how the war affected families of different social orders would undoubtedly shed more light on this question. The magazine was clearly bought by those of the lower social orders who sought to improve themselves, and such people got little encouragement from most of the intellectual community. They were by no means from the upper orders, these were street kids in Los Angeles. Concerned citizens became dismayed at the suffering among what they then called the lower social orders. As is well known, the months preceding the declaration of August 4 were filled with rancor between the commoners and the privileged orders. The medieval manor therefore sustained the three orders of medieval society: those who pray, those who fight, and those who work. Those farmers who remained on the land became more militant, resulting in the loss of power by the old rural upper orders. Such a vision certainly harked back to the Ancien Régime conception of a society of ranks and orders. They conclude that military service temporarily removed the young, labouring men who dominated the criminal orders, only to return them, duly brutalised, at the war's end. Synonyms class, level, rank, caste, grade, degree, position, station, category 3.2 A grade or rank in the Christian ministry, especially that of bishop, priest, or deacon. Example sentencesExamples These two men struggled with the validity of Anglican orders and sacramental theology. In the past we've split over such things as the punctuation of the creeds, the orders of ministry and the nature of communion. I will look also at some intriguing hints that Rome may be reconsidering its position that Anglican ministerial orders are null and void. The diaconate is a full and analogous order of ordained ministry to which both men and women are called by God. 3.3orders The rank or position of a member of the clergy or an ordained minister of a church. he took priest's orders See also holy orders Example sentencesExamples After taking orders in 1782, he became the perpetual curate of Barton-under-Needwood in 1783. Watson had been ordained a deacon in 1856 and he took priest's orders two years later. He was educated at Cambridge, took priest's orders, and became known as a preacher. He became a monk and may have taken deacon's orders. 3.4Theology Any of the nine grades of angelic beings in the celestial hierarchy. Example sentencesExamples Angels, however, the lowest of the nine orders, do not have wings. Hierarchies and litanies were emphasized: the nine orders of the angels, the Joys and Sorrows of the Virgin. 4A society of monks, priests, nuns, etc., living according to certain religious and social regulations and discipline and at least some of whose members take solemn vows. the Franciscan Order Example sentencesExamples He entered the Jesuit order in 1726 going to the Jesuit College in Piacenza in 1728 to teach literature. For four centuries it was home to members of the Cistercian order, whose lives were dominated by manual labour and prayer. Mersenne continued his education within the order at Nigeon and then at Meaux. Among the religious orders, only the friars had a vocation that by its very nature embraced the seriously poor and, indeed, the utterly destitute in the regular course of events. With the exception of some religious orders in which monks vow to live in solitude, most of us need other people to add texture to our lives. He has attended several retreats at the abbey, run by the Catholic order of Benedictine monks. Luigi Guido Grandi was a member of the order of the Camaldolites. He considered joining a monastic order but was persuaded by his parish priest to enter the secular clergy. In 1600 he went to Salamanca, where he joined the Franciscan Order. A significant number of the monks have earned university degrees before joining the order. Between the ninth and eleventh centuries the Benedictines and other monastic orders expanded across Europe. In the past the members of strict religious orders took the discipline as a matter of course. The church might even consider limiting bishops to two five-year terms, as many religious orders do for their leaders. In the 1200s, members of new religious orders, called friars, began to work among the people. I joined the order as a First Degree member in October and have developed mixed feelings since then. Monks from the various orders in Europe had flocked to England to set up religious houses. It expelled religious orders from the country and disestablished the Roman Catholic church. There are many private schools, run primarily by Catholic religious orders. Catholic schools tend to be run by religious orders, such as the Holy Ghosts, Jesuits and Loreto nuns. Luxembourg has also traditionally been the home of a great number of convents and religious orders, a number that has dwindled since the last century. Synonyms community, brotherhood, sisterhood 4.1historical A society of knights bound by a common rule of life and having a combined military and monastic character. Example sentencesExamples Only the strong leadership of John and the military orders saved the army at all; even so, thousands died that day The military orders, and the knights under King John put up a valiant defense and saved what they could of the army. Feudalism was abolished along with the Inquisition and the Church's military orders, and two-thirds of monasteries and convents were dissolved. The Order of the Knights Templar was formed during the crusades when many knights and squires set out for the Holy Land. Amongst the most famous of these crusader orders were the Order of the Knights Templar. 4.2 An institution founded by a monarch for the purpose of conferring an honor or honors for merit on those appointed to it. Example sentencesExamples The order became defunct with the death of its last knight, HRH The Duke of Gloucester, in 1974. In 1998 he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour. He was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour by his second country in 1896 and a commander of the order in 1933. 4.3 The insignia worn by members of an order of honor or merit. 4.4 A Masonic or similar fraternal organization. Example sentencesExamples The lobby in Westminster is believed by many to have been based originally on a Masonic order. Freemasonry, though banned from time to time, flourished in Russia, and the Masonic orders had a wide range of members. Synonyms organization, association, society, fellowship, body, fraternity, confraternity, sorority, brotherhood, sisterhood, lodge, guild, league, union, club 5in singular The quality, nature, or importance of something. with musical talent of this order, von Karajan would have been a phenomenon in any age Example sentencesExamples It has more than adequate accuracy for that purpose and a high order of reliability. This is journalism of a high order in which the reporter creates a vista that involves the reader. The truth is that we are simply not good enough to beat a team playing rugby of a different order to ours. The reality of this world is that there is nothing for free and everything of this order comes at a cost. Science and technology can achieve impressive technological feats like going to the moon - but the real problems we face today are of a very different order. Talent of this order is rare, and I have a feeling that Paul is not through with surprising us. Her vibrancy, dramatic range and willowy elegance make her a classical ballerina of the highest order. Synonyms type, kind, sort, nature, variety, ilk, genre, cast, style, brand, vintage 5.1with adjective The overall state or condition of something. the house had just been vacated and was in good order Example sentencesExamples The car was in excellent running order having been fully serviced by Jim, Juliette and Steffan the night before. It is now back in Wales, being restored to working order for service on the re-opened Welsh Highland Railway. We urge all readers to get their financial affairs in good order right now. When my room was in perfect order and everything was exactly how I wanted it we left the room. The field was in good order but the damp conditions hampered the accuracy of the passing between sides. They train police in the use of screening devices and ensure the equipment is in good order. Perform quarterly or annual home checkups to make sure everything is in working order. Away from the administrative side, Logan feels everything is in perfect order. The organizing committee have put much work and effort into making sure everything is in perfect order for the day. She is young and tough, the servants respect her, and everything is in impeccable order. Make occasional checks to ensure the equipment is in good order. If we don't keep the hinges oiled and everything in working order, it will just seize up on you. The local committee leave no stone unturned to ensure that everything is in perfect order for the event. All are very much appreciated, however it is important that all items should be clean and in good serviceable order. Paramount has done a fine job at making sure that everything is in working order in this picture. Synonyms condition, state, repair, shape, situation 6Biology A principal taxonomic category that ranks below class and above family. Example sentencesExamples This epoch is characterized by the appearance of all of the presently existing orders and families, and many of the existing genera of mammals. Genera are the smallest basic groups of related species; higher up on the taxonomic ladder, orders encompass hundreds of genera. There are approximately 650 to 700 extant species of cephalopods in two subclasses and five orders. The rhinoceros beetle is one of the largest members of the order Coleoptera. All spiders are members of the arachnid order Araneae, which is divided into two suborders. Synonyms taxonomic group, class, subclass, family, species, breed 7Any of the five classical styles of architecture (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite) based on the proportions of columns, amount of decoration, etc. Example sentencesExamples They reflect his keen appreciation of modern design, married with his admiration for classical orders. Work out for yourself the differences between Corinthian, Ionic and Doric orders. The interior of Syon Hall has a Doric order with high attic and flat-beamed ceiling. The Pantheon in Rome is an ideal case study for understanding classical space, orders, composition, light, and character. These columns are of different orders on each storey (Tuscan at the bottom, then Ionic, with Corinthian columns in the third storey). The former asylum is a stately quadrangular building of stone with pillars of the Doric order. 7.1 Any style or mode of architecture subject to uniform established proportions. 8Military with modifier Equipment or uniform for a specified purpose or of a specified type. drill order Example sentencesExamples Behind them, dressed in review order, marched the infantry of the British Army. They normally wear Home Service review order dress as would have been worn on garrison duties and manoeuvres during the latter part of the nineteenth century. 8.1the order The position in which a rifle is held after ordering arms. See order arms below 9Mathematics The degree of complexity of an equation, expression, etc., as denoted by an ordinal number. Example sentencesExamples The transient equations for the second orders of the identity coefficients are too complicated to solve. This integral was introduced in a paper on differential equations of the second order which he wrote in 1870. In the study of differential equations his methods of lowering the order of an equation and separating variables were important. The predictor variables were entered in the same order for both equations. His research was mostly on second order ordinary differential equations. 9.1 The number of differentiations required to reach the highest derivative in a differential equation. 9.2 The number of elements in a finite group. Example sentencesExamples He received his doctorate for a thesis entitled Contributions to the theory of integral functions of finite order in 1929. Cauchy had already proved that a group whose order is divisible by a prime p has an element of order p. He examines orders of elements and proves (although not in this notation) that there is a subgroup for every number dividing the order of a cyclic group. 9.3 The number of rows or columns in a square matrix. verbˈɔrdərˈôrdər 1reporting verb Give an authoritative direction or instruction to do something. with object and infinitive she ordered me to leave with direct speech “Stop frowning,” he ordered the judge ordered a retrial with clause the court ordered that the case should be heard at the end of August with object her father ordered her back home Example sentencesExamples British commanders were so confident they ordered their troops to walk slowly towards the German lines. Their commanding officer ordered them to stop because this was disrespectful. Every person is hereby ordered to immediately evacuate the City of New Orleans. The judge ordered that he and his family be placed in a witness protection programme. And Bingley magistrates yesterday ordered him to pay what he owed at a rate of £1, 000 a month. Bosses at Metrolink have also ordered ticket inspectors to take a tough line against anyone caught without a ticket. The judge also ordered the defendant to attend an alcohol awareness programme. Hartlepool magistrates yesterday ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the cannabis plants. He was taken before a judge last Thursday who ordered that he be held in custody. The government responded by imposing a state of emergency in late November and ordering its regular army to fight the rebels. ‘Stop the car!’ he ordered. Air marshals pursued and ordered the passenger to get down on the ground. The judge ordered an inquiry into the incident. Brown was also ordered by the court to pay £250 compensation and £65 costs. As the firefight continues, the commander orders his men to conserve ammunition. Officers will have the power to order gangs of yobs to disperse or face arrest. New chairman John Robinson has since ordered a review of compensation arrangements for senior managers. His behaviour is said to have included regularly dressing down officers in front of other staff and ordering them to do menial tasks when they were tired. ‘Begin the treatment,’ the doctor ordered sharply. Just when he felt he could go no farther, his lieutenant ordered the unit to drop their 100 lb backpacks. Synonyms instruct, command, direct, enjoin, give the order to, give the command to, tell, require, charge, adjure decree, ordain, rule, legislate, lay down, dictate, prescribe, pronounce, determine 1.1order someone around/aboutwith object Continually tell someone in an overbearing way what to do. Example sentencesExamples Despite being so much younger than her, he has a real public school cockiness and she loves the way he orders her about. I don't think so Mrs. Lincoln, no one orders me around. I'm as good as you are, pal; don't think ye can order me about just because I'm a waiter! Don't you hate it when he orders you around like that? It seemed that he took much pleasure in ordering me around. That was the other thing, Sonia never said please or thank you, as if my willingness to help somehow entitled her to order me around. She has, on repeated occasions, made my brother's life a misery by ordering him around like a kid and telling him off despite the fact that he's 29. You don't even know who we are, and you're ordering us around! And then an officer walks by me and starts ordering me around. Later, I saw him screaming at male crew members, ordering them about and obviously enjoying their subservience and the fact that they couldn't answer him back. Being a juvenile, he'd have to put up with people ordering him around for another three or four years. She resented the way the commander and his men ordered her around and treated her like a child. At the same time, a new beefed-up universities quango will take on a far stronger supervisory role, and academic leaders fear this will lead to ministers being able to order them around. You treat us as though we're nothing more than your lackeys; constantly ordering us around. She'd realized that Paige had a way of making people do things her way without ordering them about. I'm not ordering you around, it's just a suggestion. Look here Stevie, you don't order me around like that. The two boys take pleasure in ordering Johnny around. Synonyms tell someone what to do, give orders to, boss about, boss around, bully, lord it over, dictate to, ride roughshod over, dominate, domineer, browbeat 1.2North American with object and complement Command (something) to be done or (someone) to be treated in a particular way. he ordered the anchor dropped Example sentencesExamples He ordered foreign investment and competition dropped. Expressing concerns about vandalism, the landlord ordered the artwork removed. They ordered the offshore funds returned to the United States. The court ordered him dishonorably discharged and sent to military prison for ten years. Synonyms instruct, command, direct, enjoin, give the order to, give the command to, tell, require, charge, adjure 2with object Request (something) to be made, supplied, or served. my friend ordered the tickets last week with two objects I asked the security guard to order me a taxi no object are you ready to order, sir? Example sentencesExamples The best thing about it was that if they didn't have a particular album, they'd order it for you from a catalogue. Jen had just ordered her pizza and went outside to enjoy the cold February air. She ordered the lobster, crab and prawn terrine. Five hundred copies have already been ordered in advance. When the maître d' took them to their table, Trent immediately ordered a bottle of red wine. In a nutshell, if you want to stay in the business, all your guests have to be treated like VIPs - not just the ones ordering champagne and foie gras. The director promptly ordered a glass of kir royale, and we followed his lead. I ordered goods for delivery by a specific date, which has since passed. It is always a good sign when there is so much you want to taste that you have great trouble deciding what to order. She snuck a glance in the direction of the bar but Nathan was busy ordering their drinks. I order shoes straight from Manolo Blahnik, or I buy them from Harrods. The waitress comes along to see if we would like to order a drink and he perused the wine list. Shoppers will be able to order groceries on the internet, then collect them at their leisure. She was 15 and alone in a country where she barely knew how to order a cup of coffee. I've just ordered a pizza to go and collect in 10 minutes or so. I ordered it out of the catalog two weeks ago and I haven't heard a word about it since. I almost always order a grilled sole served with green beans or spinach. He likes to be able to get by in new countries, and where better to start than to learn how to order drinks in bars? As we were waiting for our food, we decided to order a few pitchers of beer to pass the time. I went back to the bar to order the food, only to be informed that they finished serving food an hour ago. Synonyms request, apply for, send away for, send off for, write off for, put in an order for, place an order for, requisition 3with object Arrange (something) in a methodical or appropriate way. all entries are ordered by date as adjective in combination her normally well-ordered life Example sentencesExamples It's in alphabetical order, because ordering them by preference would just be too difficult. In fact one of the characteristics of Dietrich as a thinker is the systematic way in which he not only orders his thoughts but his treatises as well. The exhibition catalogue is ordered by the artists' dates of birth. I have to order my notes once, twice, three times before I can start actually using them. As his previously well-ordered life slips away from him he loses control and his judgement deserts him. Jenny admits that with two small children, she has to order her time very carefully. She sat on the edge of her bed, trying to order her thoughts. Synonyms organize, put in order, set in order, arrange, sort out, straighten out, marshal, dispose, lay out, regulate Phrases in order 1According to a particular sequence. Example sentencesExamples But on top of that, you have to put the chronology in order here. Keep the cheques in order, and cash them in order, and don't forget to tick each one off your list each night you get back to the hotel. Every item needed to be kept, in order, between the correct allocated colour coded dividers. Aaron scrambled to pick up the papers and put them in order. The history portion isn't always in order, which can be a bit confusing. It's all in place, and it's simply a matter of doing things in order. Although the stages of grief are described, they don't progress in order. As a historian, she can put things in order, illuminate the past and maybe right a few wrongs. He bet £1 and as the game progressed was dealt - in order - two red aces, a five and two more red aces. Each involves a series of specific steps, which must be done correctly and in order. Synonyms in sequence, in alphabetical order, in numerical order, in order of priority, in order of merit, in order of seniority 2In the correct condition for operation or use. Example sentencesExamples Normally, as long as all the documentation is in order you will eventually be approved. Once that decision is made, airlines will then have a year to put their houses in order, before the new legal requirements come into force. The committee are sparing no effort in ensuring that everything is in order for the big day. We reviewed the data management procedures and found them to be in order. Sit down this weekend, get your affairs in order, and I promise you can trim hundreds of pounds, in some cases thousands, off your annual costs. Jon liked everything tidy and in order where he could find it, but James Hyde was a messy man. When purchasing land, one must be careful to ensure that the title deeds are in order and that the land has been correctly classified. And it's just very hard if you don't have your legal affairs in order. He noted with approval that the room was spotless, and everything was in order. A two or five-year plan is better than no plan at all and you need to make sure your finances are properly in order before making a move. Employers are only required to ask if workers' papers are in order. Synonyms tidy, neat, neat and tidy, orderly, straight, trim, shipshape, shipshape and bristol fashion, in apple-pie order, spick and span 3In accordance with the rules of procedure at a meeting, legislative assembly, etc. Example sentencesExamples There were comments made in that point of order that were not in order. Did that mean that he had authority to cast it, and that the vote was in order? The Speaker ruled at the time that my comments were in order and that the member should withdraw. But the Assembly has now determined that the Bluestone decision is quite in order and will not need further examination. But ultimately it is the Speaker who must rule upon whether a question is in order. The Minister is responsible for his legislation, and therefore the question was in order. Last week it was not in order for the Minister even to find out that simple detail. My recollection is that one supplementary question was ruled as being in order on that particular day. Just yesterday that word was ruled in order when it was used by a Minister in answering a question in this House. I listened to Mr Mallard's question, which was not in order, and I did not allow it. Synonyms permissible, permitted, allowed, allowable, admissible, acceptable 3.1Appropriate in the circumstances. a little bit of flattery was now in order Example sentencesExamples To understand the goals and significance of Gravity Probe B, a brief dip into the history of physics is in order. A call to the Advertising Standards Authority could be in order. For the reasons behind my mirth, a little history lesson is in order. To put things in perspective a quick historical comparison is in order. Perhaps a quick, yet enlightening, history lesson is in order. It occurred to me at about 3am, as I lay in bed with a raging fever and hacking cough, that perhaps a visit to a doctor was in order. Maybe some professional expert opinions are in order here. The errors in your article were significant enough that printing a correction, or at least this letter, is in order. A little modesty or circumspection would be in order here. After six years of a strong dollar, a correction might be in order. Synonyms appropriate, fitting, suitable, right, correct, proper in order for (or that) So that. employees must be committed to the change in order for it to succeed Example sentencesExamples The police had to close two lanes of the carriageway in order for the wreckage to be cleared. Her arm will remain in a cast for a few weeks in order for her injuries to heal correctly. Councillors told us that in order for wild flowers to flourish the rich alluvial silt must be removed. All of these are valid questions, because in order for a bully to succeed he or she must have victims. She added the council was pursuing the acquisition of land and property along the route in order for the scheme to go ahead. This voucher should be given to the cashier at the Royal Pavilion in order for you to receive your tickets. Alexander feels that, in order for the legal system to work, people must have free access to it. However, unless your tenancy has run out you cannot be evicted in order for the house to be sold. I think in order for a record to be commercially successful it has to get exposure from press, radio and tv as well. Classes were cancelled after the school shut for a day and a half at the height of the crisis in order for security to be increased. of the order of 1Approximately. sales increases are of the order of 20% Example sentencesExamples Since his return to work his income had substantially increased year by year such that by 1999 it was of the order of £425, 250 p.a. gross. It is reasonable to assume that in due course he will have an earning capacity of the order of £10,000 per annum, but that it will take three years before he is likely to achieve that level of earnings. The amount directly at stake is not especially large, the principal sum being of the order of $114,000. For any real impact to be made, reductions in emissions of the order of 60 per cent are needed now. We estimate that total area of infestation is only of the order of about 350 hectares and that's spread along about 60, 70 or so isolated populations. At this rate, inflation of the order of 10 percent is pretty much inevitable. The number of days taken as sick, and the cost, is of the order of 70 percent up on what it was for the same period of time last year. We're looking at the risk of destabilisation of the West Antarctic ice sheet, or a very rapid decay of the ice sheet, leading to sea rise over centuries of the order of 6 or 7 metres or so. The disease is prevalent worldwide and in 1993, the cost of health care for COPD was estimated to be of the order of $15 billion. In the late seventeenth century, the average number of copper coins minted annually was of the order of two to three hundred million; by the early nineteenth century this had increased eightfold. Synonyms roughly, approximately, about, around, just about, round about, or so, or thereabouts, more or less, in the neighbourhood of, in the region of, in the area of, in the vicinity of, something like, give or take, give or take a few, in round numbers, rounded down, rounded up 2Mathematics Having the order of magnitude specified by. Example sentencesExamples With N of the order of 100 for 20dB sensitivity improvement, the total work of acquisition rises to some five orders of magnitude greater. A spectrograph/diode array system accomplishes the detection with a signal-to-noise ratio of the order of 105. Integral-expressing K562 cells were pushed by a force of the order of 100 pN against surfaces coated with iibronectin fragments. on order (of goods) requested but not yet received from the supplier or manufacturer. Example sentencesExamples The new Learning Zone has 15 new computers and four more are on order which are adapted for people with disabilities. Service is scheduled to begin in October 2005 and 29 more trains are on order. And congratulations on the book: I've got a copy on order today. The firm currently operates four vessels - three bulk carriers and an oil tanker - and has a fifth on order at Guangzhou Shipyard International. Further investment was planned with an extra 10 rapid-response vehicles on order on top of 18 already sent out on the roads in the last year. We've a new metal shed on order too, so hopefully that will arrive soon. They'd sold the last one that morning, but they put one on order for me, so I should be able to get it sometime next week. A county council spokesperson confirmed that new signs were on order and would be installed as soon as they arrived. He was not aware of how many buses the factory had on order. Paul Cheevers, District Manager for Iarnrod Eireann in Waterford said that the steel girders were on order and were due to be put in place over the weekend. on the order of 1Approximately. it's a small fee, on the order of $10 Example sentencesExamples Even if economic output shrinks by 2 % this quarter, productivity would still grow on the order of 2 %. Agricultural subsidies cost something on the order of $1 billion a day in Western countries. The percentage of people who are university graduates in this country is still on the order of perhaps 25 percent of the adult population. The whole operation appears to have cost on the order of $500,000. Private economists at Goldman Sachs expect the deficits will be on the order of $300 to $375 billion. If drugs were sold in a competitive market, and the government funded research, the savings would be on the order of $120 billion a year. Fahrenheit 9/11 has sold something on the order of 13 million tickets. Some estimates put the total cost of the storm, including both property damage and economic losses, on the order of $100 billion. The pack's annual operating budget is on the order of $2000. Her appearance fee was on the order of 10,000 yuan or more. 2Along the lines of; similar to. singers on the order of Janis Joplin Example sentencesExamples Mitchell grew up in a home where people on the order of Thornton Wilder, Dylan Thomas and T.S. Eliot came to visit. Winkler's film seems to aspire to a quirky social commentary on the order of American Beauty. While not a classic on the order of 1991, this was a memorable World Series, filled with some strange and often surreal moments. I don't think the current malaise is a catastrophe on the order of Black Monday. Order! (or Order! Order!) A call for silence or the observance of prescribed procedures by someone in charge of a trial, legislative assembly, etc. Example sentencesExamples We have had the entire Government front bench calling out, and all you did was to call out ‘Order!’ ‘Order! ‘the judge yelled again, this time striking her gavel against a small wooden block. order arms Hold a rifle with its butt on the ground close to one's right side. Example sentencesExamples The three soldiers ordered arms and went on about their duties and the gates began to close. On the command ‘Sentries Pass,’ I saluted, ordered arms and stood at ease. order of battle The units, formations, and equipment of a military force. Example sentencesExamples The purpose is to obtain information regarding an adversary's order of battle, capabilities, plans, attitudes, and intentions. In September 1943 she filed a stunningly accurate report on the German missile order of battle. They knew when it would occur and what the German order of battle would be. Few old county infantry regiments remain in the British Army order of battle, but the Duke of Wellington's Regiment is proudly celebrating that very status after 300 years. Perhaps ULTRA's greatest contribution to victory in the west was its cumulative accretion of details about the German order of battle. This is the Navy's premier means of maintaining their electronic order of battle. American historians were disputing basic issues, such as the enemy order of battle, decades after the conflict came to an end. Scobell is credited with providing valuable intelligence on Confederate order of battle, status of supplies, and troop morale and movements. Although originally set up to resolve problems arising from the interaction of the forces involved, the missions quickly adopted an intelligence collection objective - mainly to report on order of battle. Intelligence on both the Turkish order of battle and on the topography of Gallipoli was all but non-existent. orders are orders Commands must be obeyed, however much one may disagree with them. Example sentencesExamples But orders are orders, and it was a matter of honor. It's a shame that such beauty has to be wasted, but orders are orders. But orders are orders, I'm sure after so many years, you understand. I'm really sorry about this but orders are orders,’ Tommy said with a slight smile. I don't see the point, it's not like the grass is gonna grow much in this weather, but orders are orders. out of order 1(of an electrical or mechanical device) not working properly or at all. Example sentencesExamples The bleedin ticket machine is out of order too. They also claim residents dare not use the lift because it continually breaks down, and most of the intercoms linked to the building's entry system are out of order. Then when I got to the office I found that the lift was out of order and that I'd have to climb all the way to the 4th floor using the stairs. My brother-in-law had a phone installed three weeks ago and it has been out of order longer than it has been usable. Mind you, my nearest proper cashpoint - at the station - has been out of order for six months. The elevator is constantly out of order; nobody has ever tried to fix it. The idea of climbing five stories of stairs made his head spin, and the elevator was out of order. BT engineers are working round the clock to restore services, but about 2,400 lines are still out of order. Housing bosses have apologised to residents of a Bradford 14 storey tower block over a lift which has been out of order for seven months. BT told us our telephone would be out of order until July 8. Synonyms not working, not in working order, not functioning, broken, broken-down, out of service, out of commission, acting up, unserviceable, faulty, defective, non-functional, inoperative, in disrepair 2Not in the correct sequence. Example sentencesExamples It was Fiona's first day at Nursery, so his weekday morning routine was out of order already, and I put much of his bad humour down to that fact. The only way I could be more intrigued with it would probably be if it had been released in bits and pieces, out of order, and left as clues all over the internet. This is an old man remembering his life: scenes appear out of order. It feels like the sequence is out of order with the rest of the movie. At first I thought it might be a problem with sequencing so I tried playing the record out of order. At Midway in 1942, Navy pilots trained to attack in a precisely choreographed sequence ignored their instructions and attacked out of order. His books do read best chronologically as he always has running storylines, but I've read them out of order and it's no great problem. It is like being in an art gallery; the reader can read the pieces in order, out of order, any way that excites. 3Not according to the rules of a meeting, legislative assembly, etc. Example sentencesExamples Someone attempted to ask a question and initially the Speaker in his wisdom ruled it out of order, but upon reflection he allowed it. An earlier request by his supporters for an extraordinary general meeting was ruled out of order because it had not been submitted in accordance with party rules. I think that remark should be ruled out of order. In the past, moves to protect the environment have been ruled out of order because of trade legislation. The word ‘duplicitous’ has been ruled out of order on a number of occasions in this House, and my view is that the expression the member used is so close to that as to be the same. The Republicans, ruling the amendment out of order, defeated it in a party-line vote of 222-200. Despite being ruled out of order on several occasions Dr Cowley continued to address the point and was eventually dismissed amid uproar. I ruled subsequent interjections out of order. Even if that point were correct, I suggest that the question is out of order on another ground. The amendments in the name of Dr Nick Smith have been ruled out of order as they are inconsistent with the previous decision of the Committee. 3.1British informal (of a person or their behavior) unacceptable or wrong. he's getting away with things that are out of order Example sentencesExamples There's going to be a little comeback this time, because enough of us feel that Senior Manager is bang out of order on several counts. ‘They were totally out of order in the way they spoke to everybody,’ he said. Some of the things he was saying concerning the Make Poverty History Campaign were completely out of order. He walked close up to the manager and said: ‘You're out of order.’ O'Connell was out of order and deserved the red card. A 15 per cent council tax rise is well out of order, especially if it includes spending £2.7 million on an art museum. A Warminster man admitted his drunken behaviour had been out of order when he appeared before magistrates. His behaviour in front of the children was out of order. The referee stopped the fight early and he was out of order because I could have carried on. Mind you, as an old man I'd say this was well out of order. Synonyms unacceptable, unfair, unjust, unjustified, uncalled for, below the belt, out of turn, not done, unreasonable, unwarranted, unnecessary, wrong, beyond the pale, improper, irregular to order According to a customer's specific request or requirements. the sweaters are knitted to order Example sentencesExamples It is likely the jewels were stolen to order, and they could well have been offloaded by now. Service is meticulous and as far as we could tell the food was prepared to order. Experts believe some of the football memorabilia could have been stolen to order. He thinks the animals were stolen to order - but the rustlers bungled the job in the dark. Thieves have been snatching luxury cars in Bedford to order, police are warning. Clearly our choices were being cooked to order so there was a delay before the food arrived. Rare pieces are stolen to order by gangs who use the works to launder money. More memorable, however, is the gutsy food, cooked to order and served at a relaxed pace. The gang cruised the streets to find high performance luxury cars stolen to order for the job. A gang of thieves who steal items to order have struck at a pine furniture shop for the second time. by order of According to directions given by the proper authority. he was released from prison by order of the court Example sentencesExamples I am writing this in Brussels on a Sunday when no private cars are allowed in the streets, by order. If the child is in care by order of a Court then it is the Court and local authority who make the decisions about who the child can see. The accused were brought from Lancaster to Barrow by order of the Home Secretary. Children under the care of a local authority by voluntary agreement or by order of a court often have poor physical and mental health. His microphone had been switched off, by order of the bench, but he carried on speaking. Services will be curtailed while fire doors are replaced, by order of the Health and Safety Authority. The Government must create a new wetland on the east coast by order of the European Court to replace two lost to development in Kent and Suffolk. He was released by order of an examining magistrate on 30 June after 44 days without access to judicial review or to his family or lawyer. Captain Leghorn, after registering five missions, was grounded by order of higher headquarters until after D-Day. In 2001, the company started firing union members by order of the government. in order that With the intention; so that. she used her mother's kitchen in order that the turkey might be properly cooked Example sentencesExamples I also recommended that she get a home WiFi network in order that she could use the laptop anywhere in the house. We have requested additional information in order that an informed decision can be made. Substantial increased funding will have to be provided in order that farmers receive fair and reasonable compensation. The bill aims to catch those who intentionally train people to be mercenaries in order that they can sell their fighting skills to other countries for profit. The match was brought forward from a 3.30 pm kick-off to 3pm in order that they could catch their flight back to East London last night. in order to As a means to. he slouched into his seat in order to avoid drawing attention to himself Example sentencesExamples I set up this blog in order to keep my friends and family informed of my time in Hanoi. Then there is the huge number of people who have borrowed to the hilt in order to secure a home. Previously they had to find a job and apply for a work permit in order to stay in this country. Also, do you need to have a credit history with a bank in order to take out a loan? We have velux windows in the office and in order to see out we have to scrape the snow off them. I pay road tax and other taxes in order to use the highway and this is now being denied. It is an individual sport where you have to handle the pressure in order to succeed. This creates a problem for a company that needs to maximise its profits in order to grow. It is also expected to shed jobs through natural wastage in order to keep costs down. Users must set up an online account in order to view, save and print documents. Origin Middle English: from Old French ordre, from Latin ordo, ordin- ‘row, series, rank’. noun.1 phr.
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