production order
- noun
- Formal
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orden de producción
- Government lawyers helped draft a stipulated document production order in November 1996—a move that would return to haunt them.
Examples
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Justice's new top kid on the block, Phillip A. Brooks, cast one of the first stones at Willa B. Perimutter, the Interior Department lawyer who negotiated the production order.
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Moreover, Lamberth read the production order to cover not only the five named plaintiffs but their predecessors in interest, which meant untold thousands of files would have to be analyzed.
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"I looked at the production order, and I just said, 'Holy cow.'"
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They are raising money for their first production order.
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Treasury officials contended they at first didn't believe that the production order applied to them.
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A Taiwanese news report says that assembler Pegatron scored 50 percent to 60 percent of production orders on the upcoming iPad Mini; Foxconn will supposedly get the rest.
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And testimony later indicated that the defendants didn't discover the hantavirus problem in Albuquerque until July 1998—well after the production order was issued and the deadline had passed.
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The factory received a new production order to manufacture 1,000 units of the latest smartphone model.
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After finalizing the design, the team submitted a production order to start the mass manufacturing process.
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The manager carefully reviewed the production order to ensure all specifications were met before production began.
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Morphology
The meaning 'an official instruction to begin manufacturing' is directly and compositionally derived from 'production' (manufacturing) + 'order' (official command). This modifier+head noun pattern is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Production order comes from the simple image of a manager handing an order that tells a factory what production to start. Imagine a paper slip that says 'make 500 units' and lists the parts; when this slip is given the factory begins work, so the phrase means 'an official instruction to start making a product'.