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Definition of "standing order" []

  • An order or rule held to be in force until specifically changed or withdrawn, especially a regulation relating to military or parliamentary procedure. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "standing order" in a sentence
  • "I invited David Voreacos from the Bergen Record, Keith Ryzewicz from the North Jersey Herald & News, and the beat reporter from the Newark Star-Ledger to the storefront headquarters, and left a standing order with the rest of the campaign workers that no one, under any circumstances, should come to the storefront before noon."
  • "Nevertheless, Reuter and his officers all felt themselves still bound by a standing order of the Imperial Navy that no German warship was to be allowed to fall into enemy hands."
  • "There are many reasons to envy Nicky Oppenheimer, the chairman of De Beers, but the one that gave me the green eye was his standing order for a copy of every cricket book published to furnish the library in the pavilion at Randjesfontein, the ground he built in Gauteng, where teams touring South Africa used to play their opening match."