standing order

noun

: an instruction or prescribed procedure in force permanently or until changed or canceled

especially : any of the rules for the guidance and government of parliamentary procedure which endure through successive sessions until vacated or repealed

Example Sentences

She placed a standing order for fresh flowers every week.

They were on standing orders never to leave the prisoner unattended.

Recent Examples on the Web

Dreyer has a standing order with Texas Fungus for his restaurant. —Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2022

Last October, the Bexar district judges wrote a standing order to give the authority back to the magistrates. —Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2022

Additionally, some pharmacists may not be aware that there is a standing order in their state and refuse to prescribe the drug altogether. —Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 16 Nov. 2022

What is their standing order, and with which modifications? —Rachel Sugar, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2022

Former Baltimore County Executive Dale Anderson, convicted of tax evasion in 1974, imposed a standing order that his police officers on patrol report any African American family or individual moving into Baltimore County. —Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 5 Nov. 2022

One way this is accomplished is through a standing order, which essentially allows someone with prescribing privileges to write a prescription for a group of people, such as those living in a particular community. —Maggie O'neill, SELF, 25 Aug. 2022

For instance, the physician general of Pennsylvania has issued a statewide standing order for naloxone, which grants Pennsylvania residents who are addicted to opioids (in addition to their family members and friends) access to the medication. —Maggie O'neill, SELF, 25 Aug. 2022

So the Intelligence Committee wouldn't know whether the president had a standing order? —CBS News, 21 Aug. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1702, in the meaning defined above