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standing order
noun
- Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
- standing orders, Parliamentary Procedure. the rules ensuring continuity of procedure during the meetings of an assembly.
standing order
noun
- See direct debitAlso calledbanker's order an instruction to a bank by a depositor to pay a stated sum at regular intervals Compare direct debit
- a rule or order governing the procedure, conduct, etc, of a legislative body
- military one of a number of orders which have or are likely to have long-term validity
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Word History and Origins
Origin of standing order1
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Idioms and Phrases
A regulation that is in force until it is specifically changed or withdrawn, as in The waiters have standing orders to fill all glasses as they are emptied . This idiom began life in the mid-1600s as standing rule ; the word order began to be used about 1800 for such military orders and gradually was extended to other areas.Discover More
Example Sentences
If I am returned, my main object, I avow it frankly, will be to make them the standing order.
According to beneficent Standing Order, ordinary debate stands adjourned at midnight.
For was there not a standing order that no petitioner should be denied admittance?
Isabella D'Este had a standing order that all the books issued from this great Venetian press should be sent to her.
The levelling down of the excavated earth during trench construction subsequently became a standing order in the Division.
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