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puts one's house in order

puts one's house in order is the third-person singular simple present indicative of put one's house in order.

Meaning of put one's house in order

Verb

put one's house in order (third-person singular simple present puts one's house in order, present participle putting one's house in order, simple past and past participle put one's house in order)

  1. (literal) To clean and arrange in an orderly manner the furnishings and other contents of one's house.
    • First she had put her house in order, working deftly, her pretty hair pinned up in a towel—all in order but Peter's room. That was to have a special cleaning later.1914, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 13, in The Street of Seven Stars
  2. (idiomatic) To organize one's financial and other affairs, especially in preparation for a life-changing event.
    • And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

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Puts one's house in order is the third-person singular simple present indicative of put one's house in order.

Words near puts one's house in order in the dictionary

  1. puts one's hands together
  2. puts one's head above the parapet
  3. puts one's head in the sand
  4. puts one's heart in
  5. puts one's heart into
  6. puts one's house in order
  7. puts one's mind to it
  8. puts one's money where one's mouth is
  9. puts one's name in the hat
  10. puts one's oar in
  11. puts one's own oxygen mask on first

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