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Common collocations with order in American Collocation

order noun

US /ˈɔrdər/

sensible or correct

correct
logical
natural
right

Then draw up an agenda by putting everything into a logical order.

from highest/lowest or first/last

ascending
descending
reverse

Hotels are listed in descending order of price per room.

Let me take things in reverse order and deal with the last point first.

not in order

random

The shuffle function plays all the songs from that year in a random order.

The artists featured are listed in no particular order.

of a particular type

alphabetical
chronological
numerical
rank
sequential

The bibliography is arranged in alphabetical order according to authors’ surnames.

The criteria to be applied are listed in rank order.

put things in an order

arrange something in
list something in
put something in

Can you put them in the order in which they occurred?

change an order

change
reverse

If you change the order of words in a sentence, you change the meaning.

importance
precedence
preference
priority
seniority

There are three possible solutions, listed here in no specific order of preference.