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general order
noun
- any one of a set of permanent orders from a headquarters establishing policy for a command or announcing official acts.
- any one of a set of permanent orders governing the duties and behavior of sentries on routine guard duty.
Word History and Origins
Origin of general order1
Example Sentences
The committee is also finalizing a general order that will strengthen ethics and peer support, he said.
General Grant issued a general order that “every battery bearing upon the enemy” fire in salute.
Perhaps influenced by remorse over his General Order No. 11, his views extended to foreign affairs.
In 1877 we see a great effort made to get the new departure embodied in a general order.
Moving a part of a sentence from this general order 218 usually emphasizes it.
The troops were making preparations to burn the house, acting on the general order, which had not been cancelled.
Man himself is subject to this general order; for he also, like other creatures, returns to the dust from whence he was taken.
Abdul Kerim had received a general order to buy all the sheep he could procure, so he took them.
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