order about
phrasal verb
ordered about; ordering about; orders about
chiefly British
: to give orders to (someone) : to tell (someone) what to do
You can't just come in here and start ordering people about.
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That breaking string is happening in the souls of a family, in a class, in a country, in an entire social order about to come crashing down.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
The attorney general said seeking the death penalty is in line with her order about reviving the federal death penalty.
—Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2025
Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of orders about citizenship and deportation.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2025
The executive order about deporting students has legal experts concerned.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2025
That same day, DeSantis sent out his own declaration, adopting the change in language in an emergency order about extreme weather arriving Tuesday in the northern reaches of Florida.
—Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2025
Revealingly, the order about cartels and gangs makes reference to the Alien Enemies Act, a remnant of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2025
Johnson said the goal is to reduce overproduction by taking a test-and-repeat approach—that is to say, ordering about one-tenth as many units as a brand might order for a standard collection, then reordering based on the style’s success.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
The Minnesota National Guard said the battalion then received an official order about mobilizing for deployment to Iraq in July 2005, after Walz had retired.
—Sara Swann, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Aug. 2024
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
The attorney general said seeking the death penalty is in line with her order about reviving the federal death penalty.
—Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2025
Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of orders about citizenship and deportation.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2025
The executive order about deporting students has legal experts concerned.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2025
That same day, DeSantis sent out his own declaration, adopting the change in language in an emergency order about extreme weather arriving Tuesday in the northern reaches of Florida.
—Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2025
Revealingly, the order about cartels and gangs makes reference to the Alien Enemies Act, a remnant of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2025
Johnson said the goal is to reduce overproduction by taking a test-and-repeat approach—that is to say, ordering about one-tenth as many units as a brand might order for a standard collection, then reordering based on the style’s success.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
The Minnesota National Guard said the battalion then received an official order about mobilizing for deployment to Iraq in July 2005, after Walz had retired.
—Sara Swann, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Aug. 2024
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“Order about.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/order%20about. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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