orderlynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɔː.dəl.i/us/ˈɔːr.dɚ.li/orderly noun [ C ] (HOSPITAL WORKER)
a hospital worker who does jobs for which no training is necessary, such as helping the nurses or carrying heavy things:
He has a part-time job as a hospital orderly.
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Medical treatment: doctors & health workers generally
- anaesthetist
- auxiliary nurse
- charge nurse
- clinician
- consultant
- dental practitioner/surgeon
- doctor's orders
- ENT
- GP
- houseman
- LPN
- medical examiner
- mo
- nurse
- occupational therapy
- odontologist
- radiographer
- resident
- senior nursing officer
- specialist
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orderly noun [ C ] (SOLDIER)
a soldier who acts as an officer's servant
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Soldiers & people who fight in wars
- Anzac
- bombardier
- capability
- combatant
- crusader
- guardsman
- gunner
- infantryman
- lancer
- non-combatant
- para
- partisan
- sentry
- sepoy
- serviceman
- shogun
- soldier
- storm trooper
- vet
- veteran
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orderlyadjective
uk/ˈɔː.dəl.i/us/ˈɔːr.dɚ.li/well arranged or organized:
She put the letters in three orderly piles.
Form an orderly queue.
The passengers were asked to leave the plane in an orderly fashion.
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Clean & tidy
- (as) clean as a (new) pin idiom
- a place for everything and everything in its place idiom
- apple pie
- aseptic
- be in apple-pie order idiom
- manicured
- neat
- neatly
- neatness
- ordered
- shipshape
- span
- spick
- spotless
- squeaky-clean
- stainless
- sterile
- straight
- tidy
- trim
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orderliness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈɔː.dəl.i.nəs//ˈɔːr.dɚ.li.nəs/
Patients are complimentary about the cleanliness and orderliness of the hospital.