Antonyms for ordering
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : awr-der |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔr dər |
Definition of ordering
Origin :- c.1200, "give order to, to arrange in order," from order (n.). Meaning "to give orders for or to" is from 1540s. Related: Ordered; ordering.
- verb command, authorize
- verb arrange, organize
- Her father's angry letter, ordering her to prepare for her wedding-day.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- "I thought I might find a friend of mine here," he said, after ordering a drink.
- Extract from : « The Mystery of Murray Davenport » by Robert Neilson Stephens
- Will you oblige me by ordering the steward to hand me a glass of water?
- Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Grace followed her without a moment's hesitation, ordering Leary to wait.
- Extract from : « The Film of Fear » by Arnold Fredericks
- The message-ship, ordering the Darian fleet away from Weald, had been sent off long since.
- Extract from : « Pariah Planet » by Murray Leinster
- Others laugh at such notions, and say with Anaxagoras, that justice is the ordering mind. '
- Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
- Will modern man rise to the ordering of a sane, a free, a generous life?
- Extract from : « Another Sheaf » by John Galsworthy
- I couldn't have him ordering you about, you know—not the way he did it—if he hadn't any claim on you.
- Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
- In realization of his mood, she left him under pretext of ordering the luncheon.
- Extract from : « David Dunne » by Belle Kanaris Maniates
- The great point is not to fail in ordering and sustaining the effort of our life.
- Extract from : « A Set of Six » by Joseph Conrad
Synonyms for ordering
- adapt
- adjure
- adjust
- align
- alphabetize
- apply for
- array
- assign
- bid
- book
- buy
- call for
- call the shots
- call the signals
- catalogue
- charge
- class
- classify
- codify
- conduct
- contract for
- control
- decree
- dictate
- direct
- dispose
- distribute
- enact
- engage
- enjoin
- establish
- file
- fix
- formalize
- furnish
- group
- hire
- index
- instruct
- lay out
- line
- line up
- locate
- manage
- marshal
- methodize
- neaten
- normalize
- obtain
- ordain
- pattern
- place
- plan
- prescribe
- pull strings
- put away
- put to rights
- range
- regiment
- regularize
- regulate
- request
- require
- reserve
- right
- routine
- rule the roost
- secure
- send away for
- set guidelines
- set in order
- settle
- sort out
- space
- standardize
- streamline
- systematize
- tabulate
- tell
- tidy
- warn
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