district orders

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• District

  ·adj Rigorous; stringent; harsh. II. District ·noun Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a...

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• orders

  Societies of knights. (See knighthood.) ...

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• school-district

  A division of a city or State for establishing schools. The State of New York is divided into more t...

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• after-orders

  Those which are given out after the regular issue of the daily orders. ...

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• brigade-orders

  Those issued by the general officer commanding troops which are brigaded. ...

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• further orders

  These are often impedimenta to active service. ...

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• garrison orders

  Those given out by the commandant of a garrison. ...

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• general orders

  The orders issued by the commander-in-chief of the forces. ...

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• regimental orders

  Such as the commanding officer may deem it necessary to issue for the discipline of the regiment. ...

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• sailing orders

  Written instructions for the performance of any proposed duty. ...

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• sealed orders

  Secret and sealed until the circumstances arise which authorize their being opened and acted on. Oft...

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• standing orders

  Special regulations remaining constant for some particular branch of service. ...

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• Red-light district

  ·add. ·- A district or neighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; — so called in allusi...

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• orders in council

  Decrees given by the privy council, signed by the sovereign, for important state necessities, indepe...

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