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.
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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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