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out-of-order

out-of-order is the alternative spelling of out of order.

Meaning of out of order

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Out of normal sequence.
    • You've got my index cards out of order again.
    Antonyms:
    in order
  2. (idiomatic) Not functioning properly; not in working order.
    • The lift is always out of order.
    Antonyms:
    in commission
  3. (idiomatic) Inappropriate or unsuitable.
    • I suppose my remarks about his wife were out of order.
    Synonyms:
    out of line
  4. Not in order: not according with e.g. the procedural rules governing formal meetings of a deliberative body.
  5. untidy
    • Architas Tarentinus returning from a war, where he had beene Captaine generall, found his house all out of order, husbandrie all spoiled, and by the ill government of his Bailife, his ground all waste and unmanured […]., II.31

Questions about out-of-order

What is out-of-order the alternative spelling of?
Out-of-order is the alternative spelling of out of order.

Words near out-of-order in the dictionary

  1. out-of-dateness
  2. out-of-door
  3. out-of-doors
  4. out-of-office
  5. out-of-offices
  6. out-of-order
  7. out-of-place
  8. out-of-placeness
  9. out-of-pocket
  10. out-of-print
  11. out-of-process

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Adapted from Wiktionary: out-of-order (page history and authors); out of order (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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