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on order
Idioms and Phrases
Requested but not yet delivered, as in Our new sofa is on order . This term is always used for goods of some kind, the noun order having been used in the sense of “a commission for goods†since the early 1800s.Example Sentences
Minutes later, incident command tells operations that four of the 10 additional requested strike teams — each consisting of five engines and a leader — are en route, and six more are on order.
The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big.
Since its entry into service, more than 1,600 have been sent to airlines and a further 4,800 are on order.
Fiji water, Haribo gummies and popcorn were also on order.
The company, one of the world's two major manufacturers of commercial airplanes, currently has a backlog of about 5,400 aircraft on order, it reported on Wednesday.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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