Standing Order

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:

    There is no going back,
    For standing still means death, and life is moving on,
    Moving on towards death. But sometimes standing still is also life.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)