lower orders
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, soaring costs have spurred customers to delay their projects, resulting in lower orders at its renewable energy business.
From Reuters ● Apr. 26, 2022
Did his school peers get under his skin: their sense of entitlement, their contempt for the lower orders, their noise, their vulgarity and artlessness?
From The Guardian ● Feb. 1, 2020
Adès takes more time fancifully tormenting the high and mighty than he does the lower orders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2017
Otherwise, the lower orders would defect to the other side.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2016
He would appear to have been in lower orders, if, in addition to being master of the grammar-school, he is the notary Robert Henryson who subscribes certain deeds in 1478.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
