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importance if we are to find anything. 2 organization,
uniformity, regularity, system, pattern, symmetry, harmony,
tidiness, orderliness, neatness: Some believe that there is an
order of things in the universe, others that the universe tends
to chaos. 3 category, class, caste, level, kind, sort, rank,
group, scale, importance, hierarchy, position, status, degree,
Colloq pecking order: Gregory's musical talents are of a very
high order. 4 command, direction, directive, instruction,
commandment, dictate, mandate, edict, behest, request, demand,
ukase, decree, fiat, proclamation, pronouncement,
pronunciamento; rule, regulation, law, ordinance, statute,
requirement: The police have issued an order to surrender all
hand guns. 5 procedure, proceeding(s), discipline, conduct:
The order of the meeting was breached by some rowdies. 6
condition, state (of affairs): Please leave everything in the
order in which you found it. 7 purchase order, request,
requisition, commitment, commission, instruction: We received a
large order for office furniture. 8 calm, peace, peacefulness,
tranquillity, quiet, serenity, law and order, discipline,
lawfulness: After a brief commotion, order was restored. 9
brotherhood, fraternity, sisterhood, sorority, fellowship,
sodality, association, organization, society, guild, sect,
company, community, lodge, body, knighthood: One of her
ancestors was a Knight of the Teutonic Order. 10 in order. a
neat, clean, tidy, shipshape, orderly, (well-)organized, ready,
prepared, arranged: Is everything in order for the wedding
tomorrow? b fitting, suitable, appropriate, correct, right,
apt, called-for; required, demanded, needed: I think that an
apology is in order for the way you behaved. 11 in order that.
so (that), with the aim or purpose that, to the end that: We
invited him in order that you might meet him. 12 in order to.
to, for the purpose of: In order to get there, you have to
drive up the hill. 13 out of order. a disordered,
non-sequential, out of sequence, non-alphabetical, disorganized,
unorganized, in disorder: The cards in this catalogue are out
of order and I cannot find anything. b unseemly, out of place,
improper, uncalled-for, unsuitable, indecorous, Colloq chiefly
Brit not cricket: Your remark about her religion was completely
out of order. c out of commission, broken, in disrepair,
non-functioning, non-functional, not working, broken-down,
inoperative, out of kilter or Brit also kelter, Colloq (gone)
haywire, kaput, bust(ed), US out of whack, on the fritz, shot;
Slang on the blink, Brit wonky, gone phut: The telly is out of