standing order or standing orders may refer to:
- standing order (banking) (or banker's order), instruction to a bank to pay a set amount at regular intervals from one account to another
- rules of order (or standing orders), governing parliamentary procedure for an assembly
- general order, directive published by a military commander, and binding upon all personnel under their command
Famous quotes containing the words standing and/or order:
“But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 18:13.
“The general feeling was, and for a long time remained, that one had several children in order to keep just a few. As late as the seventeenth century . . . people could not allow themselves to become too attached to something that was regarded as a probable loss. This is the reason for certain remarks which shock our present-day sensibility, such as Montaigne’s observation, “I have lost two or three children in their infancy, not without regret, but without great sorrow.””
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)