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n.
request for merchandise or services
1) to give, place, put in; make out, write out an order
2) to fill; take an order (has the waiter taken your order?)
3) to cancel an order
4) a prepublication; rush; shipping; side (esp. AE); standing order
5) (new) orders are falling off
6) on order (the merchandise is on order)
7) to order (made to order)
8) (misc.) a tall order to fill ('a difficult task to carry out')
command
9) to give, hand down (AE), issue an order
10) to carry out, execute an order; to obey, take orders
11) to cancel, countermand, rescind, revoke; violate an order
12) a direct; executive order
13) doctor's; marching; sealed; verbal; written orders
14) an order to + inf. (we received an order to attack)
15) an order that + clause; subj. (headquarters issued an order that the attack be/should be resumed)
16) by smb.'s order (by whose order was this done?)
17) under orders (we were under orders to remain indoors)
court decree
18) to issue an order
19) an affiliation (BE); cease-and-desist; court; gag; maintenance (BE), support (AE); restraining order
association, group
20) a cloistered; Masonic; mendicant; monastic; secret order
system
21) an economic; pecking; social order (he's at the bottom of the pecking order)
proper procedure
22) a point of order
23) in order; out of order (the senator was out of order)
24) to call a meeting to order
state of peace
25) to establish; maintain; restore order
state in which everything is in its proper place or condition
26) good, shipshape order
27) in; out of order (everything is in good order; this machine is out of order again)
condition
28) working order (in working order)
sequence
29) alphabetical; chronological; numerical order
30) in; out of order (in order of importance; in alphabetical order; these entries are out of order)
military formation
31) close; extended; open order
instructions to pay
32) a money, postal (BE) order
misc.
33) law and order; a new order; an old order
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v.
1) (C) order a copy for me; or: order me a copy
2) (D; tr.) to order from (to order merchandise from a mail-order house)
3) (d; tr.) to order from, out of (she ordered him out of the house)
4) (d; tr.) to order off (the referee ordered the player off the field)
5) (H) the sergeant ordered his platoon to fall in
6) (L; subj.) the mayor ordered that free food be/should be distributed
7) (esp. AE) (N; used with a past participle) the judge ordered the prisoner transferred to the county jail
8) (misc.) the doctor ordered her to bed