ordering

The word “ordering” has 3 syllables: or-der-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈɔr.dɚ.ɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for ordering?

In the thesaurus, “ordering” has 125 synonyms and 22 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for ordering along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for ordering

  • adjuring
  • advising
  • aligning
  • alignment
  • alinement
  • alining
  • alphabetizing
  • appointing
  • arrangement
  • arranging
  • array
  • arraying
  • asking
  • assigning
  • authorizing
  • begging
  • beseeching
  • bidding
  • calling
  • calling for
  • chain
  • charging
  • chartering
  • classifying
  • codifying
  • coercing
  • commanding
  • commissioning
  • compelling
  • conducting
  • constraining
  • continuity
  • controlling
  • counseling
  • counselling
  • cueing
  • cuing
  • decreeing
  • degree
  • demanding
  • design
  • dictating
  • directing
  • displaying
  • disposal
  • disposing
  • disposition
  • distribution
  • drawing up
  • echelon
  • emplacing
  • enjoining
  • entreating
  • filing
  • food chain
  • footing
  • forcing
  • graduation
  • grooming
  • hierarchizing
  • hierarchy
  • hiring
  • instructing
  • ladder
  • laying out
  • layout
  • leading
  • level
  • licencing
  • licensing
  • lining
  • lining up
  • making up
  • managing
  • mandating
  • marshaling
  • marshalling
  • obliging
  • ordaining
  • order
  • organizing
  • overseeing
  • pattern
  • peck order
  • pecking order
  • petitioning
  • place
  • placing
  • position
  • precedence
  • prioritizing
  • priority
  • procession
  • progression
  • queueing
  • queuing
  • ranging
  • ranking
  • reaches
  • requesting
  • requiring
  • requisitioning
  • rung
  • scale
  • sequence
  • sequencing
  • series
  • setting
  • setting out
  • setup
  • situation
  • soliciting
  • spot
  • standing
  • station
  • status
  • structure
  • succession
  • superintending
  • supervising
  • system
  • systematizing
  • telling
  • unscrambling
  • warning

Antonyms for ordering

  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • confusion
  • countermanding
  • deranging
  • disarranging
  • disarraying
  • disconnection
  • disjointedness
  • disorder
  • disordering
  • disorganization
  • disruption
  • following
  • keeping
  • minding
  • obeying
  • observing
  • rescinding
  • rumpling
  • upset
  • upsetting

Meanings of ordering

  • verb
    1. To set in some sort of order.
    2. To arrange, set in proper order.
    3. To issue a command to.
    4. To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
    5. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
  • noun
    1. Arrangement in a sequence.
    2. The placement of an order for goods or services.
    3. The act or ceremony of ordaining, as priests or deacons.

Example Sentences

  • She is ordering supplies for the new project.
  • They were ordering dinner when the power went out.
  • He kept ordering drinks even though the bar was closing.
  • The teacher is ordering the students into groups.
  • I’m ordering some books online this weekend.

On this page you'll find 147 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to ordering, such as: adjuring, advising, aligning, alignment, alinement, alining, alphabetizing.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • announce
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  • buzzing
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  • call the name of
  • calling
  • calling out
  • calling up
  • check
  • citing
  • commanding
  • convening
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  • count
  • demanding
  • foliate
  • hailing
  • hunt for
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  • paginate
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  • requesting
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  • ringing
  • seek
  • send for
  • subpoenaing
  • summon
  • summoning
  • whistling

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tabulating

  • accretion
  • accruing
  • adding
  • allocation
  • alloting
  • allotment
  • analysis
  • analyzing
  • anatomizing
  • apportionment
  • arrangement
  • arranging
  • assaying
  • assessing
  • assignment
  • assorting
  • assortment
  • breaking down
  • cataloging
  • cataloguing
  • categorizing
  • classifying
  • codification
  • codifying
  • collocation
  • computing
  • consignment
  • coordination
  • counting
  • cutting
  • deconstructing
  • denomination
  • department
  • designation
  • diagnosing
  • diagraming
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  • disposal
  • disposition
  • dissecting
  • distributing
  • distribution
  • dividing
  • division
  • echelon
  • enlarging
  • enumerating
  • evaluating
  • examining
  • expanding
  • gradation
  • grade
  • grading
  • graduation
  • group
  • grouping
  • increasing
  • indexing
  • inspecting
  • investigating
  • kind
  • order
  • ordering
  • ordination
  • organization
  • pigeonholing
  • reckoning
  • reducing
  • regulation
  • schematizing
  • scrutinizing
  • segmenting
  • separating
  • sizing
  • sorting
  • subdividing
  • summation
  • summing
  • systematization
  • taxonomy
  • totaling
  • toting
  • typecasting

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