major orders
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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In exchange, Chinese negotiators are floating high-visibility “deliverables” to give Trump a win at home, such as major orders for Boeing aircraft, soybeans and U.S. energy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
AI start-up Anthropic has made two major orders for TPUs, totaling $21 billion, and Meta is also in talks to use the processors, according to The Wall Street Journal.
From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026
"So, not just for all birds at all different biogeographical realms, but we repeated the analyses within families across realms and across major orders."
From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024
Excluding major orders, new orders in manufacturing rose 1.7% on the month.
From Reuters • Aug. 5, 2021
This did not mean, however, that they had taken major orders or had in any way bound themselves irrevocably to continue in the clerical vocation.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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