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daily order

daily order

7.1
An instruction that a military leader gives every day to people under their command
  • noun
  • Formal
translation icon : orden diaria
  • The colonel reviewed the daily orders every morning with his staff.

Examples

  • The daily order included instructions about training exercises and meal times.

  • The general issued a new daily order this morning.

  • Sailors are expected to check the daily orders for their assigned duties.

  • Please review the daily orders before the briefing.

  • The daily order provided clear guidelines for the troop movements during the exercise.

  • Each morning, they gather to discuss the daily order from their commanding officer.

  • The sergeant distributed the daily orders to ensure everyone was aware of their tasks.

Synonyms

order of the day
vsdaily order
1 4.9

A list of things a meeting will discuss that day

gives official daily commands from a commander to personnel

Surface Forms

daily order singular
daily orders plural

Morphology

daily + order

The meaning 'an official command issued each day' is directly and compositionally derived from 'daily' (occurring each day) + 'order' (an official command). This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common adjective+noun combination following normal English compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.

Etymology

Daily order may come from a military routine where leaders read a short order every morning. Because soldiers saw the same instruction each day, the two words daily and order came to mean 'an official command given each day'.