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Princeton's WordNet
take ordersverb
receive and be expected to follow directions or commands
"I don't take orders from you!"
take ordersverb
be ordained; enter the Christian ministry
"She took orders last month"
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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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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of take orders in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of take orders in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of take orders in a Sentence
Republican leadership tends to flood cash behind moderate candidates who will take orders from leadership, and they leave conservatives often gasping for oxygen—conservatives who are strong, viable candidates, but they leave them severely underfunded, i think leadership should stay out of primaries…when they get involved in primaries, they’re almost consistently wrong.
Frankly, Victorians don’t take orders from Greg Hunt, the bloke who forgot to place an order for vaccines. Seriously. “We’re out there doing the commonwealth government’s work for them; the least they can do is not be lecturing us on how to get that job done.”
If the word only made you think of rational, deserved causes like teaching a less whitewashed version of American history, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would still want to own it. But it's a joke because it makes you think of people who wake up offended and take orders from Twitter. And their oversensitivity has grown tiresome.
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.'.
Guess what? The establishment is afraid of me because I don't take orders from anybody over there.
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