order book
- noun
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libro de pedidos
- Morgan Stanley alleges that right now Bitcoins order book is very small, liquidity is very low.
Examples
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She opened the order book to check the requests made by the catering clients.
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So stop all your crying and do your job; that includes following SOG's SOPs and the order book.
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And some order books like the New York Stock Exchange, some order books are price and time priority.
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But the question is how full is the order book of buyers?
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Rather, he will pore over the order book with his salesman.
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It will be available online both as a PDF and as a print-to-order book, exactly like the just-published Pro Basketball Prospectus 2009-10.
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The waiter used his order book to note down our selection of dishes for the evening.
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After taking the customers' requests, he carefully consulted the order book to ensure accuracy.
Synonyms
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A book or digital record where a business writes all money it gets and spends
A book where a business writes down all money it receives and pays
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines the readily interpretable senses 'order' (a customer's request) and 'book' (a bound record), yielding a literal 'book for recording orders.' This noun+noun compounding is a regular, compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent meanings can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun order book comes from shops and restaurants where the shopkeeper or waiter wrote each customer's order in a book, often making a copy to send to the kitchen or accounts. That's why it means a book used to record customers' orders.