lower orders
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Dassault Aviation AM 7.01%increase; green up pointing triangle shares climbed after the French aerospace group posted a strong set of sales and earnings for the first half of the year despite booking sharply lower orders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Adès takes more time fancifully tormenting the high and mighty than he does the lower orders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2017
The pigs of “Animal Farm” would certainly look askance at an agreement that was normally reserved for the elites being applied to the lower orders.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2015
While services and retail trade morale improved in January, however, construction sector sentiment fell sharply by 3.7 in part because of lower orders.
From Reuters ● Jan. 30, 2014
During the Thirty Years’ War the city received no direct harm; but the ruin of Germany reacted upon its prosperity, and the misery of the lower orders led to an agitation against the Rath.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
