standing ordern.
/ˌstandɪŋ ˈɔːdə/, U.S. /ˌstændɪŋ ˈɔrdər/ 1.
a. Parliament (originally British). A procedural rule agreed to by the members of a house of parliament that remains in effect from one session to the next unless it is repealed.
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1619 Court Proc. 28 Apr. in S. M. Kingsbury Rec. Virginia Company (1906) I. 212 The Cort finding his resolucion to be settled, and that he would not stand in eleccion; they proceeded according to the Last Standing order now read, to make choice of their Treasuror.
1737 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 583/2 The standing Order of the House, made Jan. 16, 1735, for restraining the Counsel at the Bar of that House..from offering Evidence.
1846 York Herald 4 Apr. 7/4 The Committee found that in the case of this Bill, the standing orders had not been complied with.
1982 Financial Times (Nexis) 8 Oct. 5 Some delegates raised the question of whether the meeting's standing orders committee (SOC) would allow the issue to be debated at all by a conference.
1991 Statute Law Rev. Autumn 87 The Senate of the Australian Federal Parliament adopted a Standing Order establishing the Senate's Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances.
2021 Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) (Nexis) 9 Nov. It has..been decided to limit the time allowed for questions under Standing Order 27 (2) to a maximum of 10 minutes during the budget period.
b. In general: any command or rule that remains in effect indefinitely.In earliest usage: such a command given by God. Cf. quot. 1645.
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1645 J. Brinsley Doctr. & Pract. Paedobaptisme 61 Having such a standing order and direction.., shewing us to whom this seale of the Covenant belongs,..what needeth any new order in this particular?
1711 J. Disney Remarks upon Serm. preach'd by Dr. Henry Sacheverell 17 Those of the Societies for Reformation of Manners..are chosen..for their unblemish'd Characters..; none but such being by their standing Orders to be admitted.
1860 Albion (N.Y.) 23 June 290/3 Every New Year's Day, her steward had a standing order to present the entire household with new dresses.
1969 Times 3 Oct. 11/5 Why do public authorities..not answer letters..? Is there a standing order that all incoming mail shall be instantly incinerated?
2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 8 Aug. a3 His standing order to the police was to be quick on the draw and shoot suspects on sight.
c. Military. A directive or command to be followed regardless of circumstances.
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1697 tr. A. Pauw in Life C. Van Tromp 45 Judging it Requisite..that a standing order be establisht according to which the Naval Armies on both sides shall be obliged to Regulate themselves.
1757 J. Muller Syst. Camp-discipline (ed. 2) 23 It is a standing Order in Garrisons, that the Field Officers of the Picquet of the Day, be on the Parade at the making up the Guards, and see them march off.
1843 Bombay Times 30 Sept. 630/3 In some corps it is a standing order that officers shall write their own [account] books for a certain period.
2017 Stand To! (Western Front Association) June 5/2 Having run out of ammunition they abandoned the tank having set it on fire under standing orders.
d. British. An instruction given by a customer to a bank or building society to make a regular payment of a specified amount to a specified payee; (also) a payment made according to such an instruction. Hence also: an order for regular deliveries of a commodity.
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1897 Law Times 10 Apr. 541/2 Any payments on account of the income of the trust property shall, if possible, be provided for by means of a standing order to the bank at which the trust account is kept.
1913 J. F. G. Bagshaw & C. F. Hannaford Pract. Banking ix. 144 Executing Standing Orders... A customer may instruct his banker to pay a certain sum at a stated time, and the main instances of this are in the payment of annual subscriptions to clubs.
1962 D. Francis Dead Cert xii. 134 I'll place a standing order with Interflora, for lilies.
1972 G. Lyall Blame the Dead ix. 67 The standing orders were easy enough: they'd be payments to the life insurance companies and probably the rent on that flat.
1991 Highways & Transportation Sept. 24/1 Standing Order payments are to be suspended and in future members are to be encouraged to pay by Direct Debit.
2004 D. Mitchell Cloud Atlas (U.K. ed.) 384 Denholme sets up a standing order from one of his tricky-dicky accounts to pay for my residency in Aurora House.
2. U.S. In Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire: the established order of Congregationalist churches in the region, esp. as authorized by law to collect taxes from all parish residents. Also: the civic arrangement that supported this. historical after the early 19th cent.
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1771 J. Fish Examiner Examined iii. 13 They are now settled ministers of the standing order.
1798 S. W. Let. 2 Oct. in T. Baldwin Brief Acct. Late Revivals Relig. New-Eng. States (1799) i. 4 Bigotry, which was so common between the Standing Order (Congregationalists) and the Dissenters, is done away.—This work is chiefly among the Standing Order.
1825 J. A. Jones Refugee I. ii. 51 The champion of most unscriptural doctrines, and aimer of stout blows at the Standing Order.
1883 Cent. Mag. Jan. 344/2 The protest of the Baptists against the State church, and of the Methodists, against the hyper-Calvinism and the frigidity of the standing order were right and reasonable.
1997 C. Wright Congregational Polity 34 The Standing Order in New England was predicated on an essentially homogeneous population sharing a common theological heritage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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