ORDERS

[plural] [noun]What are your orders (= What have you been told you must do)?She gave orders (= an order) that she wasn't to be disturbed.My orders are to search everyone's bag as they come in.We have/are under orders (= We have been told) not to allow anyone into the building.I was only obeying orders.Orders are orders (= We must do what we have been told to do), I suppose.