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ordering about

ordering about is the present participle and gerund of order about.

Meaning of order about

Verb

order about (third-person singular simple present orders about, present participle ordering about, simple past and past participle ordered about)

  1. (transitive) To bully (someone); to be bossy toward (someone); to dominate (someone).

Questions about ordering about

What is ordering about the present participle and gerund of?
Ordering about is the present participle and gerund of order about.

Words near ordering about in the dictionary

  1. orderers
  2. orderest
  3. ordereth
  4. orderin'
  5. ordering
  6. ordering about
  7. ordering around
  8. ordering in
  9. ordering out
  10. ordering up
  11. orderings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ordering about (page history and authors); order about (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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