order

or-der

noun

A request for goods or services.

"I placed an order for pizza."

noun

A society of monks or nuns.

"He joined a religious order."

noun

A taxonomic rank in classification.

"Primates are an order of mammals."

verb

To give an authoritative instruction.

"The general ordered the troops to advance."

noun

The arrangement of things in relation to each other.

"Put the files in alphabetical order."

Thesaurus

Synonyms: order of magnitude, prescribe, dictate, orderliness, ordering, put, arrange, set up, Holy Order, monastic order, ordination, rescript

Antonyms: deregulate, disarray, disorder, disorderliness