orderly room

noun

1. the administrative office of a small military unit.

orderly room

noun

1. military a room in the barracks of a battalion or company used for general administrative purposes

Word History and Origins

Origin of orderly room¹

Probably earlier than 1975–80

Example Sentences

In late summer 2019, Guillen, who was then a private first class, was the victim of sexual harassment after her superior in a troop orderly room tried in Spanish to solicit her to participate in a threesome, according to a report released by Gen. John Murray, the commander of Army Futures Command based in Austin.

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I told him to wait in the orderly room and finished counseling the rest of the company.

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A minute later, the flap separating Major Major’s office from the orderly room flew open and the second C.I.D. man was back, puffing frantically in haste.

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At the bottom he found his footing, clambered up the other wall and staggered away beneath the hail of hoots and stones with which they pelted him until he lurched into shelter around a comer of the orderly room tent.

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Major Major strode with dignity to the rear of the orderly room without glancing at any of the clerks and typists working at the desks and filing cabinets.

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