orders
Britishplural noun
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short for holy orders
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ordained
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to become ordained
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short for major orders minor orders
Example Sentences
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Retailers Amazon.com and Walmart have each invested heavily to automate and speed up more of their fulfillment processes to get online orders to customers as fast as possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
A more than 300-year-old oak was among six sites given new preservation orders in Devon.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Dar Lbahja and Wadadli also saw bumps in orders of the dishes that Davis and Neff ate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Booksellers from around the world have been reporting similarly unusual mega orders.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
There was no one to give me orders or tell me what to do.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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