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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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