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Orders that remain in effect until they are specifically changed: “During the year in which the troops occupied the town, they were under standing orders not to fire unless fired upon.”

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How to use standing orders in a sentence

In all other respects the business of the council is regulated by standing orders which the council are authorized to make.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4|Various
The Council shall determine its own standing orders and the orders of the day; the sittings to be public.
The Theory and Policy of Labour Protection|Albert Eberhard Friedrich Schffle
The Standing Orders of the House were declared to have been complied with.
Norfolk Annals|Charles Mackie
His first care was to read out standing orders to his crew, which they were forbidden under heavy penalties to infringe.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers|Jules Verne

I had left standing orders that all reports falling inside the danger area were to be brought to me at any time.
The Misplaced Battleship|Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)

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