plural of stroke order

An order that cannot be currently filled or shipped, but is requested nonetheless for when the item becomes available again.

To treat as a back order.

(nautical, historical) A permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.

plural of well-ordering

(mathematics, braid theory) A left-invariant total order on the braid group.

plural of payment order

(finance, chiefly banking) An instruction from a sender to a receiving bank, transmitted orally, electronically, or in writing, to pay, or to cause another bank to pay a fixed and determinable amount of money to a beneficiary.

(cricket) The batsmen, constituting the tail, who bat last - roughly in positions 8 to 11.

world order