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to purchase a product

order(noun)

(often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed

"the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London"

order, order of magnitude(noun)

a degree in a continuum of size or quantity

"it was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude"

order(noun)

established customary state (especially of society)

"order ruled in the streets"; "law and order"

ordering, order, ordination(noun)

logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements

"we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation"

orderliness, order(noun)

a condition of regular or proper arrangement

"he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order"

decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript(noun)

a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

"a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"

order, purchase order(noun)

a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities

"IBM received an order for a hundred computers"

club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order(noun)

a formal association of people with similar interests

"he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"

order, rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure(noun)

a body of rules followed by an assembly

Holy Order, Order(noun)

(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy

"theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order"

order, monastic order(noun)

a group of person living under a religious rule

"the order of Saint Benedict"

order(noun)

(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families

order(noun)

a request for something to be made, supplied, or served

"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"

order(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 Romans

order, ordering(verb)

the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement

"there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list"

order, tell, enjoin, say(verb)

give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority

"I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed"

order(verb)

make a request for something

"Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage"

order, prescribe, dictate(verb)

issue commands or orders for

regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern(verb)

bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations

"We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"

order(verb)

bring order to or into

"Order these files"

order(verb)

place in a certain order

"order the photos chronologically"

ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order(verb)

appoint to a clerical posts

"he was ordained in the Church"

arrange, set up, put, order(verb)

arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events

"arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"

rate, rank, range, order, grade, place(verb)

assign a rank or rating to

"how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

the way objects in space or events in time are arranged or follow one another you always keep your books in perfect alphabetical order

we haven't found out the order of the speeches yet

a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest

a religious order

a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common

collects movie posters, photographs and autographs of the stars, and other memorabilia of that order

a piece of metal given in honor of a special event, a person, or an achievement

a book with full-color illustrations of British orders and decorations

a state of being or fitness

finally got the car back in working order

a statement of what to do that must be obeyed by those concerned

the commander issued an order that the number of guards for the prisoner be doubled

one of the segments of society into which people are grouped

the lower orders were once expected to be content living out their lives as servants to the upper classes

one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic

regards draftees as an entirely different order of soldier and less desirable than volunteers

to put into a particular arrangement I've ordered all of my CDs according to type of music

he likes to order his life so that there are few surprises

to give a request or demand for

the players ordered hamburgers for lunch

to request the doing of by virtue of one's authority

the teacher ordered that everyone sit down immediately and be quiet

to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority

the police officer ordered the crowd to back away from the suspect

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