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:
“The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale, yet he is saturated with the laws of the world. His measures are the hours; morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy, and all the lovely accidents of nature play through his mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The order of the world is always right—such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)