OPEN ORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does open order mean? 

• OPEN ORDER (noun)
  The noun OPEN ORDER has 1 sense:

1. a military formation leaving enough space between ranks to allow an inspecting officer to pass

  Familiarity information: OPEN ORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPEN ORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A military formation leaving enough space between ranks to allow an inspecting officer to pass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("open order" is a kind of...):

military formation (a formation of troops)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

 Context examples 

At the first outset, heavy, miry ground and a matted, marish vegetation greatly delayed our progress; but by little and little the hill began to steepen and become stony under foot, and the wood to change its character and to grow in a more open order.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)