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Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to:
- A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica
- Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
- Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of different ways
- Hierarchy, an arrangement of items that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another
- an action or inaction that must be obeyed, mandated by someone in authority
People
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- Order (film), a 2005 Russian film
- Order (album), a 2009 album by Maroon
- "Order", a 2016 song from Brand New Maid by Band-Maid
- Orders (1974 film), a film by Michel Brault
- "Orders" (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
Business
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- Blanket order, a purchase order to allow multiple delivery dates over a period of time
- Money order or postal order, a financial instrument usually intended for sending money through the mail
- Purchase order, a document issued by a buyer to a seller, indicating types, quantities, and agreed prices
- Sales order, an order issued by a business or trader to a customer
Exclusive organisations
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- Order (distinction), a visible honour in society
- Dynastic order of a presently or formerly sovereign royal house
- National order of a sovereign state
- Order of merit of a state or other entity
- Order of precedence, a sequential hierarchy of the nominal importance of items
- Fraternal order
- Military order (religious society), established in the era of the Crusades
- Order of chivalry, established since the Middle Ages
Legal and political terminology
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- Court order, made by a judge, e.g., a restraining order
- Executive order (disambiguation)
- Law and order (politics), approach focusing on harsher enforcement and penalties as ways to reduce crime
- Public-order crime, type of crime that runs contrary to social order
- Organized crime, groupings of highly centralized criminal enterprises
- Social order, set or system of linked social structures, institutions, relations, customs, values and practices
- Statutory instrument, type of delegated legislation
- Professional order, organization which comprises all the members of the same profession
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