This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Learn more

Another word for ordering

a-z
Noun
      1. A governmental order having the force of law.
      2. The act of regulating or the state of being regulated.
      3. A principle, rule, or law designed to control or govern conduct.
      1. An organizing or being organized
      2. A group of persons organized for a particular purpose; an association or business.
      3. The administrative personnel of such a structure:
      1. Systematization
      2. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
    See also:

    order

    system

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • There are only three of us here with access to that level of information, and I'm ordering you to do it.

  • Buy assassinations, like he was ordering a new couch for his study.

  • They preferred to let him save his life by ordering his troops to evacuate the country.

  • You might as well make it on your terms, ordering him to submit, rather than begging and mauling him like an animal.

  • While Cook was speculating on the cause of this phenomenon, and was in the act of ordering out the boats to take soundings, the " Endeavour " struck heavily, and fell over so much that the guns, spare cables, and other heavy gear had at once to be thrown overboard to lighten the ship. As day broke, attempts were made to float the vessel off with the morning tide; but these were unsuccessful.

More sentences →

Words near ordering in the Thesaurus