order
Definition 1
General: Confirmed request by one party to another to buy, sell, deliver, or receive goods or services under specified terms and conditions. When accepted by the receiving party, an order becomes a legally binding contract. See also purchase order.
Definition 2
Banking: Three-party instrument (such as a check or draft) through which its maker or issuer (drawer) authorizes a bank or other financial institution to pay the stated sum to its named holder (either a drawee or a payee). Such instruments are transferable by endorsement, and thus are negotiable instruments.
Definition 3
Law: Authoritative mandate, command, or direction issued by a court under its seal. A final court order is called judgment.
Definition 4
Securities and commodities trading: Investor's instructions to a broker or dealer to buy or sell the item in a specified manner. Such orders are of four major types: (1) Limit order, (2) Market order, (3) Open order, and (4) Stop order.
order is in the Banking, Commerce & Finance, Corporate, Commercial, & General Law, Purchasing & Procurement and Securities & Futures Trading subjects.
order appears in the definitions of the following terms:
docket,
drop shipper,
economic duress,
notice of appeal,
chronicle,
statutory lien,
all time order,
vexatious action,
oversubscription,
cross-firing
and
order appears in the other terms:
variation order,
alternative order,
good-till-cancelled order,
administrative order,
delivery order,
scale order,
allowable order cost,
purchase order,
firm order,
order policy
and
This content can be found on the following page:
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/order.html
email to a friend
print this definition
cite this definition
link to this page