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in order |
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*in order properly arranged. (*Typically: get something ~; have something ~; put something ~.) Please get your desk in order. I wish you would put things in order! See also: order in order 1. complete and correct Make sure the legal documents are signed and in order. It looks like everything is in order. 2. right for the occasion Now that you're a college graduate, I think congratulations are in order! A speech seemed to be in order, but I wasn't sure what I should say. 3. with the particular aim or purpose Your bags will be searched in order that security can be maintained. He came home early in order to make some phone calls. See also: order How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And not only externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief to look under the uniforms he would have found on every man a clean shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, "awl, soap, and all," as the soldiers say. Wire Haggis to have the Lodge in order, and carriages to meet the midday train. He told him, moreover, that in this castle of his there was no chapel in which he could watch his armour, as it had been pulled down in order to be rebuilt, but that in a case of necessity it might, he knew, be watched anywhere, and he might watch it that night in a courtyard of the castle, and in the morning, God willing, the requisite ceremonies might be performed so as to have him dubbed a knight, and so thoroughly dubbed that nobody could be more so. |
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