TO ORDER

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does to order mean? 

• TO ORDER (adverb)
  The adverb TO ORDER has 1 sense:

1. to specification

  Familiarity information: TO ORDER used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TO ORDER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To specification

Context example:

he had the shoes made to order

 Context examples 

I remembered only, and it was with a bitter anguish that I reflected on it, to order that my chemical instruments should be packed to go with me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The person who is designated by the Investigator to order investigational agents on his/her behalf.

(Ordering Designee, NCI Thesaurus)

Ring for our boots and tell them to order a cab.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He would have to order his trade-goods, to find a passage on a schooner to the Marquesas, to do a thousand and one things that were awful to contemplate.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“A raw rat,” the man of drugs was saying, “that is what it is ever my use to order for the plague—a raw rat with its paunch cut open.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was going to the butcher's, she told me, on purpose to order in some meat on Wednesday, and she has got three couple of ducks just fit to be killed.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Lady Middleton frequently called him to order, wondered how any one's attention could be diverted from music for a moment, and asked Marianne to sing a particular song which Marianne had just finished.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I huddled on my clothes and hurried downstairs in an exceedingly bad temper to order some hot water.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

John was requested to order home a dozen or so of little pots and an extra quantity of sugar, for their own currants were ripe and were to be attended to at once.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This prince was so gracious as to order a guard to conduct me to Glanguenstald, which is a royal port to the south-west part of the island.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)