Definition of "take orders" []

• Receive and be expected to follow directions or commands (verb)
• Be ordained; enter the Christian ministry (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "He brought things to a head three days ago when he informed me that he was not about to take orders from a shirt-lifting Rome mort turd pusher, and that when he took over the island I would be the first man he would kill."
• "Which said with equal curtness that he, a patrician Servilius, would not take orders from any pretentious mushroom of a tradesman, and would stay right where he was, on the western bank."
• "From Nemausus he had sent a courier hotfoot to Rome with another letter for Scaurus, declaring that he would not take orders from Mallius Maximus, and that was final."