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noun

Definition of orderingnext
1
as in hierarchy
a scheme of rank or order in the ordering of crimes, ripping the tags off upholstered furniture should rank fairly low

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Relevance
2
as in sequence
the way objects in space or events in time are arranged or follow one another the ordering of the children in the procession was according to height

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ordering

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verb

present participle of order
1
as in arranging
to put into a particular arrangement I've ordered all of my CDs according to type of music he likes to order his life so that there are few surprises

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2
as in requesting
to give a request or demand for the players ordered hamburgers for lunch

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3
as in asking
to request the doing of by virtue of one's authority the teacher ordered that everyone sit down immediately and be quiet

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4
as in instructing
to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority the police officer ordered the crowd to back away from the suspect

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ordering
  1. hierarchy
  2. sequence
  3. arranging
  4. requesting
  5. asking
  6. instructing
  7. ranking
  8. arrangement
Noun
  • Announced tonight to open in April 2026, the glass-and-concrete masterpiece is designed amorphous and horizontal—like Los Angeles itself—to foster LACMA director Michael Govan’s vision of a democratic curation of artworks, mixing various eras and geographies without wings and hierarchies.
    Mark Guiducci, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Lee also attended Michel Foucault’s lectures in Tokyo in 1970, and the French theorist’s revolutionary approach to hierarchies of power—his foregrounding of horizontality and relation—finds a subtle echo in the approachability and simplicity of Lee’s unassuming sculptures and paintings.
    Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of hierarchy
Noun
  • The household is barely making ends meet in the series’ opening sequence, and after Jean’s disappearance, the siblings are cruelly separated by the British bureaucratic state.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The test, developed at the University of California, San Francisco, extracts the DNA and RNA from a sample of blood, tissue or body fluid, and then sequences the genetic material and compares the sequences to a vast database of viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites to see what matches up.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of sequence
Verb
  • Then, spend a few moments arranging them.
    Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Rob Moose also contributed to the record, playing viola and arranging strings throughout.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of arranging
Verb
  • New York City customers also have the option of requesting their items be picked up at their homes with their online orders.
    Kanika Talwar, WWD, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Now, Landry has issued an executive order declaring natural gas to be clean energy and requesting that the Biden administration lift all rules and regulations limiting the export of natural gas.
    Nolan McKendry | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Oct. 2024
Definition of requesting
Verb
  • Rather than asking the reader to identify the important information, the candidate decides which points are most relevant and highlights that data.
    Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 16 Nov. 2024
  • Bonnyrigg Rose is asking fans to pitch in £100,000 ($127,000) to level its sloping pitch out.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of asking
Verb
  • After a local court ratified the city council’s ban, police moved in, instructing protesters to leave and rounding up more than 100 of them.
    Reuters, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Intelligent interrogation involves instructing large language models to perform in ways that generate better outcomes—by, say, breaking processes down into steps or visualizing multiple potential paths to a solution.
    H. James Wilson Paul R. Daugherty, Harvard Business Review, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of instructing
Noun
  • Las Lomas and Gunn enter the rankings, San Ramon Valley, Archbishop Riordan rise after winning regular-season finales.
    Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Tulane 8-2 98 – Dropped out of rankings: Iowa State (17), Pittsburgh (23), Vanderbilt (24).
    Eric Olson, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
Definition of ranking
Noun
  • If the arrangement is semi-permanent, visit your city hall website to determine to which department the violation(s) should be reported.
    Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
  • Service and fee income decreased to $3.0 million, down from $4.9 million, primarily due to a reduction in policy fees and fee sharing arrangements.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
Definition of arrangement
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