Most likely, the writer intended or more correctly would have used "on the order of". This is an expression derived from the mathematical term "order of magnitude" meaning "by the same factor of ten". "On the order of" is often used less precisely to just mean "approximately".

Jun 17, 2022 · By order (with the above meaning) used to be commonly seen on official notices, meaning that the instruction to do, or not do, something had been formally issued by an official body. So here, By order: The Avenger is intended to give extra weight to the warning.

Sep 23, 2021 · he placed a big order for some more [paints] When you "place an order" it means you tell someone what you want to buy from them and agree a price (you might pay when you place the order or you might pay later). You say "with X" to mean the person that you are buying from. Vincent wanted to buy paints from his brother.

Nov 2, 2016 · You can use it even if you have just placed the order and it's barely going to be made. You can use to to indicate the destination, as in "I had the pizza delivered to the house." You might get away with ordered instead of delivered , but it seems a little strange in my opinion.

Jan 19, 2015 · English uses word order to identify the subject and object of sentences. People will generally understand if you get word order wrong, particularly once they get an "ear" for your way of speaking: Star Wars' Yoda is a good example. But word order can really matter in English. "I have to eat food" vs "I have food to eat". "Do you need food?"

Where I work, the company has projects, and assigns each project a 7-digit number for their accounting system. Projects for the same client will generally but not always have the same first 5 digits. If you arrange the projects by project number order, it's not going to be in alphabetical order by client name or anything else.

Dec 21, 2023 · out of order is an idiom. Sense 2 defines it as. not following the formal rules of a meeting, court session, etc. At the last town council meeting, her proposal was ruled out of order by the mayor. OP's example. Proposals to amend the tax laws were ruled out of order by legal advisers. means the proposals were deemed not following the formal ...

Jan 3, 2021 · I'll do a cheeseburger (means order a cheeseburger). The active verb to order is implied by the context that the speaker is a restaurant customer talking to the server. And this fits the definition, in that I am "dealing with the server's request for an order with care or attention."

Mar 6, 2021 · Customers visited the culprit's house and placed an order for the items that they wanted, and then he stole the exact type and number of items that the customer had ordered. This was stealing to order .

I understand in order to as meaning that the aforementioned action comes first (in order) and thus enables the subsequently mentioned action. So we have the order: 1st action allows 2nd action. But isn't this always the case, even when using 'to' in order to describe a following action that requires the aforementioned action?