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noun(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy
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verbassign a rank or rating totype of:
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"IBM received an order for a hundred computers"nouna commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities
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"the order of Saint Benedict"nouna group of person living under a religious rule
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"She ordered him to do the shopping"verbgive instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authoritytype of:
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verbappoint to a clerical posts
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"it was on the order of a mile" "an explosion of a low order of magnitude"nouna degree in a continuum of size or quantity
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"he put his desk in order" "the machine is now in working order"nouna condition of regular or proper arrangement
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nouna body of rules followed by an assembly
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"a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"nouna legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
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verbarrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
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"there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list"nounthe act of putting things in a sequential arrangement
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"men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"nouna formal association of people with similar intereststype of:
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"we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"nounlogical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
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noun(architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romanstype of:
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"I gave the waiter my order" "the company's products were in such demand that they got more orders than their call center could handle"nouna request for something to be made, supplied, or served
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noun(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more familiestype of:
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verbbring order to or intoOpposite:
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"order ruled in the streets" "law and order"nounestablished customary state (especially of society)Opposite:type of:
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"order a work stoppage"verbmake a request for something
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"the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London"noun(often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
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"order the photos chronologically"verbplace in a certain order
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