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n.
request for merchandise or services
1) to give, place, put in; make out, write out an ~
2) to fill; take an ~ (has the waiter taken your ~?)
3) to cancel an ~
4) a prepublication; rush; shipping; side ( esp. AE ); standing ~
5) (new) ~s are falling off
6) on ~ (the merchandise is on ~)
7) to ~ (made to ~)
8) ( misc. ) a tall ~ to fill ('a difficult task to carry out')
command
9) to give, hand down ( AE ), issue an ~
10) to carry out, execute an ~; to obey, take ~s
11) to cancel, countermand, rescind, revoke; violate an ~
12) a direct; executive ~
13) doctor's; marching; sealed; verbal; written ~s
14) an ~ to + inf. (we received an ~ to attack)
15) an ~ that + clause; subj. (headquarters issued an ~ that the attack be/should be resumed)
16) by smb.'s ~ (by whose ~ was this done?)
17) under ~s (we were under ~s to remain indoors)
court decree
18) to issue an ~
19) an affiliation ( BE ); cease-and-desist; court; gag; maintenance ( BE ), support ( AE ); restraining ~
association, group
20) a cloistered; Masonic; mendicant; monastic; secret ~
system
21) an economic; pecking; social ~ (he's at the bottom of the pecking ~)
proper procedure
22) a point of ~
23) in ~; out of ~ (the senator was out of ~)
24) to call a meeting to ~
state of peace
25) to establish; maintain; restore ~
state in which everything is in its proper place or condition
26) good, shipshape ~
27) in; out of ~ (everything is in good ~; this machine is out of ~ again)
condition
28) working ~ (in working ~)
sequence
29) alphabetical; chronological; numerical ~
30) in; out of ~ (in ~ of importance; in alphabetical ~; these entries are out of ~)
military formation
31) close; extended; open ~
instructions to pay
32) a money, postal ( BE ) ~
misc.
33) law and ~; a new ~; an old ~
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v.
1) ( C ) ~ a copy for me; or: ~ me a copy
2) ( D ; tr. ) to ~ from (to ~ merchandise from a mail-~ house)
3) ( d ; tr. ) to ~ from, out of (she ~ed him out of the house)
4) ( d ; tr. ) to ~ off (the referee ~ed the player off the field)
5) ( H ) the sergeant ~ed his platoon to fall in
6) ( L ; subj. ) the mayor ~ed that free food be/should be distributed
7) ( esp. AE ) ( N ; used with a past participle) the judge ~ed the prisoner transferred to the county jail
8) ( misc. ) the doctor ~ed her to bed