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Princeton's WordNet

  1. take ordersverb

    receive and be expected to follow directions or commands

    "I don't take orders from you!"

  2. take ordersverb

    be ordained; enter the Christian ministry

    "She took orders last month"

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  1. take orders

    To "take orders" generally implies receiving instructions and direction from a superior or customer. This can refer to an employee being given tasks by a supervisor, or a waiter taking a customer's order in a restaurant, etc. This term often signifies that the person "taking orders" is expected to obediently execute or fulfill those orders.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of take orders in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of take orders in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of take orders in a Sentence

  1. Carlos Ghosn:

    We have suspended taking orders, we didn't do it overall, just on some models. We said, 'Sorry, until we see where this situation is going we don't take orders.'.

  2. Robert Heinlein:

    A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

  3. Robert A. Heinlein:

    A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, cone a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

  4. Republican John Kasich:

    Guess what? The establishment is afraid of me because I don't take orders from anybody over there.

  5. Carlos Ghosn:

    We have suspended taking orders, we didn't do it (suspend orders) overall, just on some models we said, 'Sorry, until we see where this situation is going we don't take orders.


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