in order

Definitions

1. 1

   In a sequence.

   • Place the cards in order by color, then by number.
2. 2

   Ready, prepared

   Ready, prepared; orderly; tidy.

   • Some teachers find it hard to keep their classes in order.
   • I wish I could get my desk in order.
   • His material is in order for the presentation.
3. 3

   In accordance with the procedural rules governing formal meetings of a deliberative body.

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   1. 4

      Appropriate, worthwhile.

      • Now that we have finally finished, I think a celebration is in order.
   2. 5

      Emphasizes that what follows immediately is the purpose of the preceding or the beyond.

      • In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]
      • She stood in order to see over the crowd. / She stood to see over the crowd.
   3. 6

      In sequence.

      • They sang in order, ending with a basso profundo.

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