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Standing order   /stˈændɪŋ ˈɔrdər/   Listen
Standing order

noun
1.
A rule of order permanently in force.






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"Standing order" Quotes from Famous Books



... you lubber? cried Benjamin, with a very unbecoming heat for an officer on the eve of battle how should you know, you grampus? Havent I sailed aboard of the Boadishy for five years? and wasnt it a standing order to fire low, and to hull your enemy! Keep silence at your guns, boys and mind the order ...
— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper

... Committee in enlarging the Library and in trying to obtain an adequate and suitable building to house it. The vote was raised to L300 in 1867 and L600 in 1874, while in addition the adoption of a new standing order for Private Bills in 1870 gave the fees up to L25 for a Bill that passed both Houses to the Library fund. Fines levied on members were also devoted to the Library fund, though this has never been a lucrative source. Among ...
— Report of the Chief Librarian - for the Year Ended 31 March 1958: Special Centennial Issue • J. O. Wilson and General Assembly Library (New Zealand)

... term of Victorian politics. It was a new Standing Order introducing what has since been called the Closure, and was first moved in the Victorian Legislative Assembly on ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris

... came in for a game of small-stake poker, but after the second month they countermanded the standing order for Saturday night musical comedy seats. So often they discovered it was pleasanter to remain at home. Indeed, during these days of household adjustment, as many as four evenings a week Mrs. Latz dozed there against her husband's ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various



Words linked to "Standing order" :   order, parliamentary procedure, parliamentary law, rules of order



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