Definitions for orderlies

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orderlies or·der·ly

Spelling: [awr-der-lee]

IPA: /ˈɔr dər li/

Orderlies is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 377 anagrams from letters in orderlies (deeilorrs).

Definitions for orderlies

noun

1. Military. an enlisted soldier assigned to perform various chores for a commanding officer or group of officers.
2. a hospital attendant having general, nonmedical duties.

adverb

1. methodically; regularly.
2. according to established order or rule.

adjective

1. arranged or disposed in a neat, tidy manner or in a regular sequence:
2. observant of or governed by system or method, as persons or the mind.
3. characterized by or observant of law, rule, or discipline; well-behaved; law-abiding:
4. pertaining to or charged with the communication or execution of orders.

Origin of orderlies

1470-80 as adv.; 1570-80 as adj.; 1795-1805 as noun; order + -ly

Examples for orderlies

orderlies were not sent out at that hour of the morning unless the cause was pressing.

Harris, coming up with the orderlies, found the old negro at his mare's bridle.

In this respect he differs considerably from the majority of orderlies.

So he rattled on, telling all the gossip he had heard among the orderlies.

The orderlies of the other companies called to their men to fall in at different places.

In the morning, one of the colonel's orderlies was told to fetch Lisle.

Certain men, orderlies or stretcher bearers, would be imprisoned.

At the other end of the ward sat the two orderlies, drinking wine.

orderlies were going about, carrying out linens, emptying pans.

There was straw on the stone floors and two surgeons and some orderlies.