standing order

Definitions

General English

• noun an order written by a customer asking a bank to pay money regularly to an account, or to a company to send something regularly
• adverb showing that the answer is ‘yes’
• conjunction and this is the reason why

Information & Library Science

• noun a regular order for each edition of a serial or annual publication
• noun an instruction to your bank to pay a fixed regular amount of money to a named person or organisation
• abbreviation in Internet addresses, the top-level domain for Somalia

Travel

• noun an instruction given by a customer asking a bank to make a regular payment.

Politics

• acronymSO

Food

• scallops

Origin

• So is a general Germanic word, with relatives in German so, Dutch zo, Swedish så, and Danish saa. It is also distantly connected with Greek hōs ‘as’ and hóppōs ‘how’. Far back in its history it participated in the formation of English as and such.

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Contexts for “standing order”

10 definitions in context
• General English
• Information & Library Science
• Travel
• Politics
• Food
• Origin