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"order" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often directive (9 letters).
Definitions
Arrangement; request; command
Word origin
From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-.
Used in a sentence
“put the children in age order”
“It's arranged in order of frequency”
“In these situations we find the Genesee slate, the Tully limestone and the upper part of the Hamilton group, each one in its order disappearing beneath the lake level as we proceed southward.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues
01“Command or sequence”5 letters
02“Request in a restaurant”5 letters
03“Restaurant request”5 letters
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