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order

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

order

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a court order (=an instruction that someone must do something)

▪ A court order specified that the money must be paid back over six months.

a court rules/orders/holds sth

▪ The court ruled that the penalty was not excessive.

at the bottom of the pecking order

▪ Nobody wants to be at the bottom of the pecking order.

banker's order

be in good/perfect/full etc working order

▪ The car was old, but the engine was still in good working order.

call/order (sb) a cab (=telephone for one to come)

▪ Here's the phone number if you want to call a cab.

choose/order sth from the menu

▪ He ordered a chicken dish from the menu.

court order

▪ His computer was seized under a court order.

gag order

give orders/instructions

▪ She certainly likes giving orders.

▪ They were given strict instructions not to tell anyone.

in alphabetical order

▪ The files are arranged in alphabetical order.

in chronological order

▪ We arranged the documents in chronological order.

in numerical order

▪ Make sure the files are organized in numerical order.

in order of precedence

▪ Guests were seated in order of precedence.

in order of preference

▪ Please list your choice of colleges in order of preference.

in order of priority (=with the most important first)

▪ They asked voters to list issues in order of priority.

(in order) to avoid confusion

▪ Doctors should explain their instructions to patients carefully, to avoid any confusion.

in random order

▪ The names are in random order.

in...serial order

▪ Keep the questions in the same serial order.

keep...in working order

▪ the amount of exercise needed to keep your body in working order

last orders

lower orders

mail order

▪ It is available by mail order from Green Life Products.

monastic orders (=groups of monks)

▪ Roman Catholic monastic orders

money order

obey an order/command/instruction

▪ The first duty of a soldier is to obey orders.

order a halt to sth (=officially say that something must stop)

▪ Judge Marquez ordered a halt to logging on Indian lands.

order book

▪ Our order books are full at the moment.

order of magnitude (=size)

▪ an increase of this order of magnitude

order of magnitude

▪ That was a problem but this crisis is of a different order of magnitude.

order paper

pecking order

▪ Nobody wants to be at the bottom of the pecking order.

place orders

▪ You can place orders by telephone.

point of order

▪ One MP raised an objection on a point of order.

postal order

preservation order

▪ a tree preservation order

put your affairs in order (=organize them before you go somewhere or die)

▪ I have cancer so I know I’ve got to put my affairs in order.

rank...in order of

▪ It is not always easy to rank the students in order of ability.

restore order (=make people stop fighting and breaking the law)

▪ The National Guard was called in to restore order when riots broke out.

restraining order

shout orders

▪ The lieutenant was shouting orders at the workmen.

side order

▪ a side order of onion rings

some semblance of order

▪ She was trying to get her thoughts back into some semblance of order.

standing order

stop-loss order

strict orders/instructions

▪ He’s left strict instructions not to be disturbed.

the established order (=the people and organizations that have power)

▪ The revolutionaries posed a serious threat to the established order.

the moral order (=the way societies are organized according to moral standards)

▪ Hitler posed the greatest threat to the moral order of the world that history has ever seen.

under starter’s orders (=about to begin the race)

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

alphabetical

▪ They are not in alphabetical order, but in the order you are likely to want to use them.

▪ Imagine trying to rearrange a table consisting of 100 salespeople into alphabetical order by names or into numerical order by sales amounts.

▪ And the book eschews alphabetical order in favour of thematic logic - to good effect.

▪ In the dictionary of cheeses that appears at the end of this chapter some cheeses are briefly described in alphabetical order.

▪ If the user wanted the list in alphabetical order, it would have to be retyped.

▪ They are given in alphabetical order, and from my own experience I know them to be absolutely reliable.

▪ The accounts can also be kept in strict alphabetical order and up to date.

▪ The project described below are, where appropriate, shown in country alphabetical order.

chronological

▪ They are neat, legible, easily handled and can be filed in chronological order. 2.

▪ Indicate these by placing them in a chronological order and the specific amount of time required to complete them.

▪ We shall consider each of them in the chronological order in which they came to Anselm's attention.

▪ The corridor is devoted to old black-and-white photographs showing, in chronological order, the construction of the house.

▪ Second rule is: All articles written on the Grand Canyon must be written in chronological order.

▪ Try a tight chronological order to connect each event.

▪ Do they do it all at once, or in chronological order, or just as it seems to emerge?

▪ The more or less chronological order of the essays allows certain themes to emerge and evolve over time.

high

▪ In some instances the imperatives of lower order needs may preclude the possibility of following higher order needs. 4.

▪ But with them he could be violent, abusive, duplicitous, a Lothario of the highest order.

▪ They give us acting of a high order, and director Lloyd Newson has done an impressive job in eliciting it.

▪ This was drama of the highest order.

▪ The nature of the task requires cooperative activity of a high order at various levels and between a wide range of people.

▪ This is exclusivity of a high order.

▪ The best of our cathedral choirs offer excellence of the highest order.

▪ Herzberg developed a more sophisticated analysis of the significance of higher and lower order needs.

low

▪ Satisfaction of higher order needs may well change the perception as to what constitutes satisfaction of lower order needs. 7.

▪ Second, the actual difficulties encountered overseas appeared to be of a considerably lower order of intensity than had been feared.

▪ These lower orders also had racial dimensions.

▪ That could mean lower factory orders from retailers, and producers will hire fewer people.

▪ He also had claims to be considered a genuine all-rounder, having played many attacking innings in the lower middle order.

▪ All these matters are indeed of a lower order of magnitude than those which had been fought for under Lanfranc and Anselm.

▪ For the most part the lower orders depended on selling their labour.

▪ For example, the first rise in expectations of the lower orders would be for more and better food before manufactured goods.

mail

▪ So is it merely catalog mail order made complicated by computers?

▪ Direct mail order sale of food products by food manufacturers and specialty shops has become big business.

▪ You can buy an Ecosphere by mail order.

▪ The environmentally friendly retail chain will combine its Web operations with its retail and mail order activities.

▪ He said Federated will expand its private-label merchandise and mail order.

▪ But I have to admit that I buy such records by mail order, and that I collect them.

▪ Approximately 3. 275 million tickets were sold by mail order from May-December, 1995.

natural

▪ Even the claim that the natural order reflected the contingency of a divine will could pull in two directions.

▪ It seems, like the dandelions in spring, to be the natural order of things.

▪ In terms of the dominant concepts of the age, feudalism appeared as the natural order of things.

▪ To me, Taft-Hartley was part of the natural order.

▪ No one told; and Jack too joined the unspoken conspiracy that all was well, that no natural order had been violated.

▪ Faith and despair are equal readings of the natural order.

▪ They were charged with dispensing justice and avenging violations of the natural order.

▪ But my ideas were based on ignorance of the natural order of things.

new

▪ Dinosaurs could not have been moribund because they were still diversifying into new orders.

▪ Airbus had said earlier this week that it won 106 new orders valued at about $ 7 billion.

▪ The plant makes and tests rocket motors, but doesn't have enough new orders to keep going.

▪ And late last year customers apparently chose to work down inventories instead of placing new orders.

▪ Without new orders, the shipyard would have run out of work by the end of next year.

▪ That means for every $ 100 in shipments, companies received just $ 80 in new orders.

▪ The elements of national life which were consistent with the new world order were solely cultural, not political or economic.

▪ At home, Edna was in her final campaign against Jane Ming-li, who continued to defy the new order.

old

▪ Corporate yuppie culture is oozing insidiously into the development world and the old order is slowly and inexorably crumbling.

▪ To some extent, we must ring out the old in order to ring in the new.

▪ Today the Opposition revealed themselves as dinosaurs because they acted as mere apologists for the old established order.

▪ It was this cataclysmic political event that shattered the stability of the old order.

▪ In their real critique of the old order, they were also, often, both isolated and mocked.

▪ The old order was changing, and there was nothing we could do about it.

▪ No doubt Sewell would have maintained the old order but there were forces outside the College working for change.

political

▪ In the public realm Christians identified themselves almost without reservation with the political and social order of the Roman empire.

▪ Each successive ideal-type political culture involves more extensive involvement between individuals and the political order.

▪ In effect, individuals and groups can have an impact on the political and social order.

▪ Perhaps the constitution is primarily a symbolic document and its details are unimportant for the actual functioning of the political order.

▪ The democratic political order must be protected against misuse of Basic Rights.

▪ Yet it has resisted or ignored almost every epoch-marking change in the social and political order.

▪ Wulfhere's subsequent advance to the Isle of Wight suggests a near-total collapse of political and military order south of the Thames.

▪ The political order depends upon the economic system to generate goods and services for the survival and prosperity of its citizens.

postal

▪ Please return it at once, or when sending the postal order.

▪ Coins Any uncrossed postal order which does not state to whom it is to be paid.

▪ Send the coupon, and cheque or postal order if applicable to,.

▪ The cheapest way is to buy and send postal orders in various denominations which are acceptable in around 60 countries.

▪ If you paid by postal order, take the counterfoils to the post office for a refund.

▪ You should print your name and address on the back of the cheque or postal order.

▪ Send postal orders to Headgear for Lemurs as soon as you can.

▪ Please make cheques or postal orders payable to Y Care International.

public

▪ The central theme of Conservative morality and order was that of public order.

▪ Smuggling increased and public order virtually broke down.

▪ The public order essence of the offence has been wholly lost, and affray has become a form of aggravated assault.

▪ Seven people were arrested for public order offences at the illegal party, whiCH was held in a disused colliery near Cinderford.

▪ Only if public order appeared to be on the verge of breaking down would the government contemplate restricting political liberty.

▪ Two young men called Murphy were arrested and charged with public order offences.

▪ That provision was part of the international public order and applied to all ships which sailed on the seas.

▪ At the weekend seven people arrested before and during the Division Three match were charged with public order offences.

short

▪ A piece of good news for Bill Clinton in Congress was followed, in short order, by the opposite.

▪ We got to Pecos in short order and turned north for Carlsbad.

▪ Collectively they squandered their pricing power in short order.

▪ He gave me his curriculum vitae in short order.

▪ It did, and in pretty short order.

▪ But, in short order, Lott orchestrated deals on a range of stalled legislation, from welfare reform to health care.

▪ A short order may be made, for example, to give a parent the opportunity to return to court with legal representation.

▪ I charmed him in short order.

social

▪ The variability of meanings of health and illness is due in a large degree to the negotiability of social order.

▪ In the philosophical tradition there have been two tendencies with respect to epistemological concerns and concerns about the social order.

▪ Meanwhile, though, his interests in much of his prose gravitated towards the city and the consideration of social order.

▪ They had no view of tile nobility of being intellectuals and judges of lie social order.

▪ Our social orders have changed and we now dislike such vivid evidence of hierarchy.

▪ Plots, conspiracies, secrets of revolution, secrets of the end of the social order.

▪ Restoring his power to discriminate between one murderer and another would restore justice without imperilling social order.

▪ She considers thin distinction between the pure and the impure an essential part of social order.

tall

▪ A tall order, but the price of failure could be the end of collective security for the West.

▪ To ask for definitive answers to such grandiose questions would, of course, be a tall order.

▪ Voice over A tall order, when tennis time eats into valuable study time.

▪ That's a tall order, even for some one with Howard's apparent integrity.

▪ Holding these seemingly incompatible forces together would seem a tall order indeed.

▪ This is a tall order for busy parents.

▪ Isn't that a tall order?

▪ But meeting the need will be a tall order.

working

▪ I keep some of the toys on display in working order for my grandchildren to play with.

▪ The tenant need not pay rent until the business premises are put back in working order again.

▪ Oxygen, suction and emergency equipment must be at hand and in working order. 2.

▪ Is the aid reliable and in working order? 9.

▪ The Governor says it's essential the prison is in full working order right from the start.

▪ The clock was restored to its original condition in full working order in 1956, after a lapse of seventy-two years.

▪ I reckon the average user will keep it in working order for ages - I kill them at roughly yearly intervals.

▪ Also at Horstead Keynes are the carriage sheds where work is undertaken to restore coaching stock to working order.

■ NOUN

book

▪ These would be commercial travellers, wanting to write up their order books in peace.

▪ The other driving force is cold cash and order books.

▪ Booksellers normally order books on a sale or return basis.

▪ Rolls-Royce's order book stands at a record £7 billion.

▪ For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book.

▪ I don't know what productivity you have to show in your job, in mine it's the order book.

▪ And nobody's order books had been full this summer.

▪ By 1950 the order book was full to overflowing.

care

▪ For those reasons I allow the appeal and I substitute an interim care order.

▪ Supervision orders, but not care orders, may also be made in criminal proceedings and are then subject to different legal requirements.

▪ The family proceedings court made care orders in favour of the local authority in respect of both children.

▪ A court can not substitute a care order for a supervision order on an application for discharge.

▪ They wanted an interim care order.

▪ For juvenile offenders the White Paper contained proposals for the courts to add a residential care order.

▪ The hearing of the application for a full care order was listed for 22 January 1992.

▪ They simply wanted to convert the interim care order into a substantive care order.

court

▪ She also got a court order for maintenance.

▪ Hicks obtained a court order waiving the juvenile confidentiality of his case, enabling officials to discuss his arrest and trial.

▪ There are short rehabilitation periods for juvenile offenders and persons subject to court orders or disqualifications.

▪ In 1983, Mrs Victoria Gillick sought a court order to rule the latter order of priorities illegal.

▪ The council primarily has been involved in the fight over special masters appointed to monitor federal court orders on prison conditions.

▪ Construction is proceeding despite an interim court order restraining the company from putting it into commission.

▪ A court order freezing proceedings will expire on November the ninth.

form

▪ The offer's open only while stocks last so hurry to post off the order form.

▪ Customers can call the phone-order number to receive a yachting order form.

▪ Simply fill in the order form at the end of this section and you could be using your discs the next day.

▪ An order form is enclosed with Publishing News.

▪ See the order form for additional resources.

▪ As a matter of fact, there wouldn't have been an order form big enough!

▪ Quote code reference TRI-R on the order form.

▪ And if you'd like to see the full collection just tick the box on your order form for the complete Essentials.

world

▪ The elements of national life which were consistent with the new world order were solely cultural, not political or economic.

▪ In the absence of that conference the rules for the new world order are right now being written in Brussels.

▪ Everyone, visible and invisible, has to eat according to Chewong notions of the world order.

▪ The prevailing economic order had to be challenged, and out of the conflict a new world order would emerge.

▪ However, we are not that much nearer to a world order dominated by a fair application of the rule of law.

▪ Bush insisted that his policy was clear: the United States would punish aggression to insure the new world order.

▪ In the new world order capital can get out fast in times of trouble, but labour is stuck where it is.

▪ To some, we are living in a new world order: others characterise it as a new world disorder.

■ VERB

arrange

▪ Anyone may display the list, which is arranged in alphabetical order.

▪ The several statements should be arranged in order of their importance.

▪ This can be arranged easily by standing order, automatic transfer or by telephone.

▪ If the chapters in this book were arranged in a different order, would it be a different book or the same?

▪ Autosomal bivalents can be arranged in order of size, but unambiguous identification of individual bivalents is not possible.

▪ The diagram shows how the towns can be arranged in a Rank-Size order from large to small - a hierarchy.

▪ The individual terms included in that list can then be arranged in a logical order before beginning to draft.

▪ The 17 creatures of Figure 5 are arranged in no special order on the page.

establish

▪ We can, however, establish the correct order of magnitude from a number of sources.

▪ The character who can maintain such an idea is a formidable opponent to established order.

▪ This disjunctive, unfinished quality challenges readers to establish an order which the text does not entirely provide for them.

▪ The reasons for doing so, he felt, are to establish order and to protect private property.

▪ Once the component parts have been established, their order in terms of time-scale can be decided.

▪ Most of those words are cynical, humorous and often subversive to the established order.

▪ Conservatism may represent the attempt to establish some continuity and order in these precarious circumstances.

▪ Among those who say that Maciel abused them are two men who helped to establish the order in the United States.

follow

▪ As a man, he followed orders ardently.

▪ The technicians follow the orders of the director who determines what picture goes on the air.

▪ Many thought the mild-mannered Mr Junejo would obediently follow Gen Zia's orders.

▪ By tradition, one must write them following a prescribed stroke order as well, something also to be memorized.

▪ With Banerjee and Richardson to follow in the batting order, there was no point in hanging around.

▪ At sea, the rotation of pilots follows a strict order so that no one pilot dives more than another.

▪ Had I stuck to my principles or had I simply followed orders?

▪ Among other findings, the court ruled that defendants could plead that they were just following orders.

give

▪ The more timid personalities must be encouraged to take charge and to give orders.

▪ Get your ego out of the way and start convincing and not giving orders.

▪ When he gave the order, they began to cut the corn in the field where I was hiding.

▪ The impossibility of giving orders in the darkness, among the tangled thickets, soon produced its effects.

▪ Respectfully waiting for me to give my orders.

▪ Con stood at the door, her coat draped over his arm, giving orders.

▪ The man giving orders was short and fat.

▪ This is a part of outlining which gives order and structure to your work.

issue

▪ Their leaders outside the jails issue orders that have to be obeyed on pain of summary execution.

▪ Whether Nixon himself issued the order remains unknown almost 30 years later.

▪ Colebrooke, seeing his visitors would not be deterred, turned away to issue further orders.

▪ President Clinton issued an order Tuesday barring federal contracts from companies that knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

▪ He would issue the orders, and take the consequences.

▪ The chancery court issued a restraining order forbidding desegregation in September.

▪ Debes gave them an additional forty-five minutes, then issued the order.

keep

▪ Gordon Jackson's Hudson keeps order Downstairs.

▪ Jones knew how little time busy people have to pay their bills or keep their finances in order.

▪ Man is made to relieve the gods of the toil of keeping the earth in order.

▪ After I finish, I can come back once a week to keep the library in order.

▪ He has the technology-he can remake you. Keep those order forms coming in.

▪ Local commanders, acting on their own authority, attempted to keep order according to their interpretations of their duties.

▪ Examples included the ownership of large single-family homes, but no income to furnish them whilst keeping garden meticulously in order.

▪ Kennedy responded that marshals would be removed when state officials kept order and conformed to federal law.

make

▪ A residue of this is the power to make orders in council.

▪ But he hadn't actually made it an order.

▪ The company has had to take on ten extra staff to make up the order.

▪ That objection was quite simply that the courts of this country have no power to make the order applied for.

▪ The fact that the threshold test is met does not mean that the family proceedings court have to make a care order.

▪ An order is automatically discharged if the child is adopted or a court makes a residence order under s8.

▪ It was undesirable to make an order which would in practice be executed before the defendant could avail himself of that opportunity.

obey

▪ You've never learnt to obey orders, have you?

▪ This is opposed to obeying orders from a center, or reacting in lock step to the overall environment.

▪ Two other board members hovered behind him while he told Mrs Saulitis to obey orders.

▪ The sea, and the ships on it, do not obey orders in the way that armies do.

▪ There was no cheering on the part of the men, but a stubborn determination to obey orders and do their duty.

▪ It is one of the privileges of a councillor in a council meeting to see that other members obey standing orders.

▪ Whoever owned it could call three times upon the Winged Monkeys, who would obey any order they were given.

place

▪ Decisions on whether Rolls-Royce engines are fitted to the jets will probably be left until customers decide to place orders.

▪ Institutions place third market orders with broker-dealers registered to trade exchange-listed securities off the exchange floor.

▪ So we urge you now to place your order by post or by phone.

▪ When finally yet another server stepped in, we rapidly placed our order.

▪ I eventually had to place a book order after scouring the shelves of shops and libraries.

▪ Edna was placing the kitchen in order.

▪ After you have placed your first order, further half-litres come willy-nilly and are put in front of you, until you decline.

▪ Investors and traders who had bet the dollar would fall had placed such orders to limit their losses.

receive

▪ Airbus Military Company is also expected this week to receive new orders from Europea governments for 218 A400M military transport aircraft.

▪ Goods are normally dispatched within 24 hours of our receiving your order.

▪ In 1994 it received more orders for new planes than Boeing.

▪ All this would have been done within two hours of receiving the order.

▪ Customers can call the phone-order number to receive a yachting order form.

▪ In 1913 she received the order of St John of Jerusalem.

restore

▪ The government has managed, by and large, to restore public order which was notably lacking when it took over in April 1992.

▪ The only hope lay in trying to restore order.

▪ An indefinite curfew was imposed on seven police districts in the city and troops were called in to restore order.

▪ Is a strongman needed to restore civil order?

▪ Malekith moved swiftly to restore order.

▪ To restore order, the government declared martial law.

▪ But after a sixty-five thousand pound refurbishment, the bells have been restored to full working order.

restrain

▪ Neither Sheffield, his attorney nor Phoenix police could confirm if a restraining order had been obtained.

▪ Within a day, a county judge granted a restraining order barring enforcement of the new law.

▪ His answer was that the restraining order probably protects other entrants.

▪ The chancery court issued a restraining order forbidding desegregation in September.

▪ The measure already has been blocked under a temporary restraining order.

▪ Agnes Brye said she had asked authorities a few years ago to issue the restraining order before they finally did so.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

(in) working order

▪ Controllers regained contact with the satellite after three anxious hours, and discovered that it appeared to be in full working order.

▪ Every lock in the house is in perfect working order.

▪ Hall of Power - a range of engines and heavy machinery, most of which are in working order and operated daily.

▪ Oxygen, suction and emergency equipment must be at hand and in working order. 2.

▪ The tenant need not pay rent until the business premises are put back in working order again.

▪ There had been some hints in the latter part of the nineteenth century that the machine was not in perfect working order.

▪ These older tankers require continuous maintenance to keep them in good, safe working order at sea.

▪ You did have to keep it clean and in good working order.

a tall order

▪ Breaking a habit, be it over-eating, over-drinking, biting your nails or jumping to conclusions, is a tall order.

▪ Holding these seemingly incompatible forces together would seem a tall order indeed.

▪ If this sounds a tall order, it is.

▪ Isn't that a tall order?

▪ It can be a tall order sometimes.

▪ That's a tall order, even for some one with Howard's apparent integrity.

▪ This is a tall order for busy parents.

▪ To ask for definitive answers to such grandiose questions would, of course, be a tall order.

an unfilled order

be given/get your marching orders

bulk buying/orders etc

▪ Also, with bulk buying you save a lot of time by not having to order each resistor and capacitor individually.

▪ He and other outlets routinely open bulk orders of booster packs, then sell individual rare cards over the counter.

▪ In the 1980s you can not survive in a small business unless you are part of a bulk buying organization.

▪ It might also be worthwhile buying packs of d.i.l. integrated circuit holders, or bulk buying the smaller types.

▪ One reason: Cellular services that buy phones from Motorola have demanded ever-lower prices for their bulk orders.

▪ This is available from us free of charge in bulk orders and I hope you will consider taking some for distribution.

call sb/sth to order

▪ I now call this meeting to order.

▪ Having had the bloody debris removed, he called the cast to order and began work.

▪ The new Senate president banged down the gavel and called the chamber to order with a strong firm voice.

cash a cheque/postal order/draft etc

fill an order

in ascending order

▪ Their ages, in ascending order as above, were four, seven, ten and fourteen.

▪ We ranked rural postcode sectors in ascending order of proportions of oil workers among economically active men.

▪ You may move cards off in ascending order from Ace to King to their respective piles off the playing area.

in descending order (of sth)

▪ Another beneficial trick is to re-order the rows and columns of a table in descending order of marginal totals.

▪ Follow these steps to re-sort our table in descending order: 1.

▪ It will allocate them in descending order from the highest priced bid to the lowest.

▪ The balance sheet in Table 16.2 shows the various sterling assets of the recognized banks in descending order of liquidity.

▪ The groups were themselves divided, in descending order, into offices, divisions, and branches.

▪ The table indicates which categories each of the six companies found useful; the categories are listed in descending order of usefulness.

▪ The table is now sorted in descending order according to the Amount field, as shown in figure 11. 5.

▪ We also want this table sorted by the amount that the clients owe in descending order.

in running order

▪ A nightly news programme, involving late inclusions and enforced changes in running order, is bound to be frenetic.

▪ Keep the battery fully charged and the engine in running order.

▪ Two isn't multiplicity and Castelfonte never was in running order, and now they were living in hotels.

in short order

▪ The bombers destroyed the enemy's camp in short order.

▪ A piece of good news for Bill Clinton in Congress was followed, in short order, by the opposite.

▪ But, in short order, Lott orchestrated deals on a range of stalled legislation, from welfare reform to health care.

▪ Collectively they squandered their pricing power in short order.

▪ He gave me his curriculum vitae in short order.

▪ I charmed him in short order.

▪ Sun Microsystems Inc will make it available for all Sparc systems in short order.

▪ They would be attacked in short order and possibly even killed.

▪ We got to Pecos in short order and turned north for Carlsbad.

law and order

▪ Neighborhood leaders are working with police to maintain law and order.

▪ The new government is gradually restoring law and order.

▪ His party claims to be the party of law and order, the family, back to basics.

▪ I have tried to show the real gap between Labour and the Conservative party and Government on matters of law and order.

▪ Indeed, it would represent a complete breakdown, not just of law and order, but of all civilised values.

▪ It arises from the need to maintain law and order.

▪ My hon. and learned Friend will be glad to welcome the 16.7 percent. increase for the law and order programme.

▪ Periodic law and order - it's elementary!

▪ Sentencing policies, as a result of law and order campaigns mean the prisoners are younger and more likely to be black.

▪ The hon. Gentleman again raised the question of law and order.

put/set/get your (own) house in order

▪ But Apple first must get its house in order.

▪ Commissioners are satisfied with the progress it is making to put its house in order.

▪ Following numerous complaints the Vicar of Woodford has been told to put his house in order.

▪ Henry had set his house in order but had no thoughts about setting off on crusade.

▪ Others have called on the council to step in and tell the firm to put its house in order.

▪ The Law Society no longer can support equally those who have put their house in order and those who have not.

repeat order/prescription

▪ Repeat orders Dated-product manufacturers will try and sell out by year-end, so repeat orders before Christmas can be a problem.

▪ Also, Haines reckons that fair play has helped it win repeat orders.

▪ Coupon not required for repeat orders.

▪ Get the repeat prescriptions in time so that he is never left without.

▪ It has to win repeat orders.

▪ They can produce repeat prescriptions when the doctor so authorises.

▪ Y'know, I just get a repeat prescription every week.

reverse order/situation/process etc

▪ At the bottom of the pile, in reverse order of its importance, was the letter from the bishop.

▪ Cosmologists have supposed that the universe might go into reverse and run through with all its physical laws in reverse order.

▪ In fact we have just suggested the reverse order of development.

▪ The reverse process was used to install the launcher on pedestals at the pad.

▪ The reverse process, therefore, is to consider what we owe to other people.

▪ To take these points in reverse order, the initiation of the student into the rational life should occur in two directions.

▪ Ultimately you are involved in a reverse process of what the historian H underwent while writing the book.

▪ We discuss in reverse order these three ways that languages can have words that share sound and meaning.

stay an order/ruling/execution etc

▪ Rivals got a stay order from the courts, though after a backroom deal in mid-March the government got its way.

the lower orders

▪ For example, the first rise in expectations of the lower orders would be for more and better food before manufactured goods.

▪ For the most part the lower orders depended on selling their labour.

▪ Gin was, after all, commercially produced and consumed only by the lower orders.

▪ He shows no urge to rub shoulders with the lower orders but, if anything, a tendency to keep his distance.

▪ Journalists believed that their message could reach even the lower orders.

▪ The riots of 1736, too, had crystallized general resentments of the lower orders.

▪ We must have the freedom to make our mills successful, so that we can offer the lower orders employment.

▪ When friendships finally became possible for him they were with children of the lower orders.

the running order

▪ There are a few changes in the running order for the teachers' conference.

▪ So Jonathan set the running order up and I was really pleased.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ Anyone who disobeys this order will be punished.

▪ Can we have a bit or order here? Someone straighten those desks out to start with!

▪ Check that all the names are in the right order.

▪ General Bradley gave the order to advance.

▪ He developed a filing system to try to impose order on the mass of information.

▪ I'm not taking orders from you!

▪ I'm the one who gives the orders around here -- just remember that.

▪ I'm very sorry, but we seem to have lost your order.

▪ I want the report ready by noon - and that's an order.

▪ It doesn't matter which order you answer the questions in.

▪ List three choices in order of preference.

▪ Movie scenes are not shot in the order in which they are shown.

▪ My orders are to take you to the airport and put you on the first plane to Paris.

▪ On Stalin's orders, the target for the 5 year plan was raised once again.

▪ Put it into a large mixing bowl and add, in this order, the milk, the honey, the melted butter, and the salt.

▪ The commander's orders must be obeyed at all times.

▪ The court has issued an order blocking the sale of this drug.

▪ The Fraternal Order of Police

▪ The games were displayed on a long wall, in alphabetical order, from Acrobats to Wheel of Fortune.

▪ the National Order of Loyal Knights

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ He said Eurydice stayed in her room most of the time, but now she gave orders and she had stopped crying.

▪ I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos.

▪ In knowing that something is an order one knows all there is to know about its relation to its execution.

▪ Richmondshire District Council agreed to make the order announcing the pay and display scheme which will start on June 1.

▪ The government also is tinkering with how it tallies Hispanic citizens and in what order questions are put to respondents.

▪ The human beings who survive the Flood come from the old corrupt, violent order.

▪ The offer's open only while stocks last so hurry to post off the order form.

II.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

court

▪ Equally, the court can not normally order the grant of a new tenancy of more than the holding.

▪ To obtain these it is possible to ask the court to order discovery.

▪ The court may order that the action be stayed or dismissed or that judgment be entered for plaintiff or defendant.

investigation

▪ The failure to order a criminal investigation drew immediate criticism from several policyholders' lawyers.

▪ Home Office officials have ordered an investigation into the case.

▪ Congress orders investigations, and suddenly the rest of the mainstream media begin covering them as legitimate stories.

▪ Sir John has reportedly ordered an investigation into allegations that the unit burgled and burnt down his offices to destroy evidence.

▪ Education Secretary John Patten ordered an investigation into huge differences in performance between local authorities.

judge

▪ All that the judge may order is a postponement until the risk to the administration of justice has passed.

▪ At a third proceeding June 6, both sides again objected, and the judge ordered the news media excluded.

meal

▪ It was like wading through treacle just to order a meal.

▪ You order your meal from the tablecloth, which is stained.

▪ We could order meals from outside and buy fresh fruits, candies, and toiletries.

▪ He ordered his meal of cod and chips and no vinegar, then sat down to await its arrival.

power

▪ The civil division of the Court of Appeal enjoys much wider powers to order a retrial than the criminal division.

▪ In the 1890s magistrates were given the power to order corporal punishment as punishment for specific offences.

▪ It turns in very firmly, with surprising power response, when ordering the automatic transmission to think quickly.

▪ The court has power to order that no application is issued without leave.

▪ The ombudsman has no power to order compensation for example.

▪ The Commission has powers to order divestiture of unauthorised mergers.