EXORD
nounEtymology Abbreviation of execute order.
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Government, Military, Politics, War US An execute order: an order to implement a specified plan.
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- TASKORD, OPORD, DEPORD
exord
nounalso spelled EXORDEtymology From Latin exordium.
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Literature, Media, Publishing Rhetoric A preface or prefatory passage.
- One peculiarity of Bello is his having first broken through the custom of religious invocations at the heads of his cantos, in place of which he substituted poetical exords, or reflections on the events of his narrative, or on circumstances connected with them.1830, “Ferrario -- On Chivalry and Romance and Italian Romantic Poetry”, in Foreign Quarterly Review, volume VI, number XIII, page 387:
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- primordial, primordium