standing order or standing orders may refer to:
- standing order (banking) (or banker's order), instruction to a bank to pay a set amount at regular intervals from one account to another
- rules of order (or standing orders), governing parliamentary procedure for an assembly
- general order, directive published by a military commander, and binding upon all personnel under their command
Famous quotes containing the words standing and/or order:
“Grandfather sang it under the gallows:
“Hear, gentlemen, ladies, and all mankind:
Money is good and a girl might be better,
But good strong blows are delights to the mind.”
There, standing on the cart,
He sang it from his heart.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on air, let them. The sooner the present generation of women dies out, the better. We have idiots enough in the world now without such women propagating any more.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)