1. Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
   "The librarian maintained a careful ordering of the books";
   - order, ordination
    
2. The act of putting things in a sequential arrangement
   "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list";
   - order
    
3. The process or act of making an order for something
   "The company streamlined its ordering process for customers"

1. Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
   "She ordered him to do the shopping";
   - tell, enjoin, say
    
2. Make a request for something
   "Order me some flowers"; "order a work stoppage"
    
3. Issue commands or orders for
   "The general ordered an immediate retreat";
   - prescribe, dictate
    
4. Bring order to or into
   "Order these files"
    
5. Place in a certain order
   "order the photos chronologically"
    
6. Organize thoughts, ideas, or temporal events
   "order my schedule";
   - arrange, set up, put
    
7. Bring into conformity with rules, principles or usage; impose regulations
   "We cannot order the way people dress";
   - regulate, regularize, regularise [Brit], govern

Derived forms: orderings

Type of: arrange, arrangement, ask for, bespeak, bring down, call for, decide, determine, impose, inflict, make up one's mind, obtrude, organisation [Brit], organise [Brit], organization, organize, request, set up, visit

Antonym: disarray

Encyclopedia: Ordering