general order

nounMilitary.Usually general orders .

any one of a set of permanent orders from a headquarters establishing policy for a command or announcing official acts.
any one of a set of permanent orders governing the duties and behavior of sentries on routine guard duty.

Origin of general order

First recorded in 1865–70

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The committee is also finalizing a general order that will strengthen ethics and peer support, he said.
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General Grant issued a general order that “every battery bearing upon the enemy” fire in salute.
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Perhaps influenced by remorse over his general order No. 11, his views extended to foreign affairs.
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In 1877 we see a great effort made to get the new departure embodied in a general order.
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Moving a part of a sentence from this general order 218 usually emphasizes it.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

The troops were making preparations to burn the house, acting on the general order, which had not been cancelled.
The Relief of Mafeking | Filson Young
Man himself is subject to this general order; for he also, like other creatures, returns to the dust from whence he was taken.
The Book of Curiosities | I. Platts
Abdul Kerim had received a general order to buy all the sheep he could procure, so he took them.
Trans-Himalaya, Vol. 2 (of 2) | Sven Hedin

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