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firing order

British  

noun

  1. the sequence of ignition in the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Cook has asked the court to declare Trump's firing order "unlawful and void", and also named Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and the Board of Governors as defendants.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2025

The firing order comes after the North launched some 100 shells into the sea off its west coast around 10 p.m.

From Reuters Oct. 19, 2022

The firing order also left Whitlock without his pension or health insurance.

From Salon Oct. 24, 2020

The firing order, dated Sept. 16, was first reported by the Denver Post newspaper, which obtained the letter through an open records request.

From Reuters Oct. 3, 2019

The locks should always be in the very best firing order, and constructed to give fire as easily as the nature of the service will admit.

From Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. by Priest, William

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