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standing order

noun

  1. Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
  2. standing orders, Parliamentary Procedure. the rules ensuring continuity of procedure during the meetings of an assembly.


standing order

noun

  1. Also calledbanker's order an instruction to a bank by a depositor to pay a stated sum at regular intervals Compare direct debit
  2. a rule or order governing the procedure, conduct, etc, of a legislative body
  3. 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

First recorded in 1730–40
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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A regulation that is in force until it is specifically changed or withdrawn, as in The waiters have standing orders to fill all glasses as they are emptied .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.
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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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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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