order
/ˈoɹ.dɚ/ verb A2- To set in some sort of order. · We need to order them alphabetically.
- To arrange, set in proper order. · The books in the shelf need ordering.
- To issue a command to; to charge. · to order troops to advance· He ordered me to leave.
- To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order. · You can now order most products to be delivered to your home.· to order groceries
- To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
Plural order · He/she/it orders · Past ordered · Past participle ordered · -ing form ordering
Verb forms
- Base form
- order
- He/she/it
- orders
- Past
- ordered
- Past participle
- ordered
- -ing form
- ordering
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- order about To bully (someone); to be bossy toward (someone); to domi...
- order around To command (someone) repeatedly and unpleasantly, pointle...
- order in To call and place an order for food to be delivered.
- order out To call a place of service and order food, or other goods...
- order up To summon for military duty.
From the library
“Just to amuse myself, and keep the good people busy, I ordered them to build this City, and my Palace; and they did it all willingly and well.
Observe,” said Villefort, smiling, “I do not mean to deny that both these men were revolutionary scoundrels, and that the 9th Thermidor and the 4th of April, in the year 1814, were lucky days for France, worthy of being gratefully remembered by every friend to monarchy and civil order; and that explains how it comes to pass that, fallen, as I trust he is forever, Napoleon has still retained a train of parasitical satellites.
The order was executed as promptly as it would have been on board a man-of-war.
The young sailor jumped into the skiff, and sat down in the stern sheets, with the order that he be put ashore at La Canebière.
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