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Translation

to order (goods, food); to book

Word origin

From Latin mandare ('to entrust, to commission'): to order something is to entrust the task of supplying it. English mandate, command and recommend all grow from the same verb.

Origin
Latin
Root
mandare
English cognates
mandate, command, recommend

Examples

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We ordered coffee and cake in the restaurant.

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He ordered a new book on the computer.

?

Have you already booked a room in the hotel?

covers ordering in the commercial sense only: a meal, a book, a hotel room. Ordering a person about is , and the two never swap.

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This word is part of lesson 23.