general order


nounMilitary.Usually general orders .
  1. any one of a set of permanent orders from a headquarters establishing policy for a command or announcing official acts.

  2. any one of a set of permanent orders governing the duties and behavior of sentries on routine guard duty.

Origin of general order

1
First recorded in 1865–70

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How to use general order in a sentence

  • The troops were making preparations to burn the house, acting on the general order, which had not been cancelled.

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  • Man himself is subject to this general order; for he also, like other creatures, returns to the dust from whence he was taken.

  • Abdul Kerim had received a general order to buy all the sheep he could procure, so he took them.