What is the meaning of the word "order"?
Definitions:
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a body of rules followed by an assembly noun
- The chairman strictly enforced the orders for the committee.
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a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities noun
- IBM received an order for a hundred computers
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a condition of regular or proper arrangement noun
- I put my desk in order.
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a degree in a continuum of size or quantity noun
- it was on the order of a mile
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a group of person living under a religious rule noun
- the order of Saint Benedict
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a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) noun
- a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there
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a request for something to be made, supplied, or served noun
- I gave the waiter my order
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established customary state (especially of society) noun
- order ruled in the streets
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logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements noun
- we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation
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often plural, a command given by a superior that must be obeyed, such as a military or law enforcement officer noun
- The British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London.
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place in a certain order verb
- order the photos chronologically
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the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement noun
- there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list
Synonyms:
- club
- consecrate
- decree
- dictate
- edict
- enjoin
- fiat
- gild
- govern
- guild
- lodge
- monastic order
- ordain
- order of magnitude
- ordering
- orderliness
- ordinate
- ordination
- parliamentary law
- parliamentary procedure
- place
- prescribe
- purchase order
- put
- regularise
- regularize
- regulate
- rescript
- rules of order
- say
- social club
- society
- tell