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order
noun as in arrangement, organization
Strong matches
adjustment, aligning, array, assortment, cast, categorization, classification, codification, composition, computation, disposal, disposition, distribution, establishment, grouping, harmony, layout, lineup, management, method, neatness, ordering, orderliness, pattern, placement, procession, progression, propriety, regularity, scale, scheme, sequence, series, setup, standardization, succession, symmetry, tidiness, uniformity
noun as in lawfulness
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calm, decorousness, decorum, discipline, goodness, integrity, niceness, orderliness, peacefulness, probity, properness, propriety, quiet, rectitude, rightness, seemliness, suitability, tranquility, uprightness
Weak match
noun as in class, status
noun as in command
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authorization, charge, decree, direction, directive, injunction, instruction, law, mandate, permission, regulation, rule
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behest, bidding, commandment, dictate, ordinance, precept, say-so, stipulation, ukase, word
noun as in request; purchase agreement
Strongest matches
Strong matches
amount, booking, bulk, commission, engagement, goods, materials, quantity, requisition, reservation, reserve, stipulation
noun as in organization
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association, brotherhood, club, community, company, fraternity, guild, league, lodge, sect, sisterhood, society, sodality, sorority, union
Strongest matches
buy, call for, charge, direct, hire, instruct, obtain, request, require, tell, warn
Strong matches
adjure, bid, book, decree, dictate, enact, engage, enjoin, ordain, prescribe, reserve, secure
Weak matches
apply for, call the shots, call the signals, contract for, pull strings, rule the roost, send away for
verb as in arrange, organize
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adapt, adjust, align, alphabetize, array, catalogue, class, classify, codify, control, dispose, fix, formalize, furnish, group, index, line, locate, manage, marshal, neaten, normalize, pattern, range, regiment, regularize, regulate, right, routine, settle, space, standardize, streamline, systematize, tabulate, tidy
Weak matches
lay out, line up, methodize, put away, put to rights, set guidelines, set in order, sort out
Example Sentences
"There have been a lot of questions about Jones and Beaumont at the top of the order being able to play the in-swinging ball," Hartley added.
As the trade war began heating up, China halted all orders, hurting US farmers.
The standoff escalated sharply on Friday, when the Pentagon ordered the deployment of the world's biggest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford, to the region.
Plans for any new construction are supposed to be submitted to the commission for its “comment and advice” according to executive orders issued by William Taft in 1910 and Woodrow Wilson in 1913.
And he had fresh orders to get to work at one of the country’s most isolated — and most dangerous — lighthouses.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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