ordinance

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɔːdɪnəns/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɔːdnəns/
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• General-American: /ˈoɹdɪnəns/
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• General-American: /ˈoɹdnəns/
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• homophone: ordnance (some pronunciations)
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• CMU ARPABET: AO1 R D AH0 N AH0 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English ordinaunce (ca. 1300), from Old French ordenance (“decree, command”) (modern French ordonnance), from Medieval Latin ordinantia, from ordinans, the present participle of ordino (“put in order”) (whence ordain). Doublet of ordonnance.

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: أَمْر (ʔamr) — a local law or regulation
• Bulgarian: постановление (postanovlenie) — a local law or regulation
• Bulgarian: разпоредба (razporedba) — a local law or regulation
• Chinese Mandarin: 法令 (fǎlìng) — a local law or regulation
• Chinese Mandarin: 條令 /条令 (tiáolìng) — a local law or regulation
• Chinese Mandarin: 條例 /条例 (tiáolì) — a local law or regulation
• Czech: nařízení — a local law or regulation
• Czech: zákaz — a local law or regulation
• Czech: příkaz — a local law or regulation
• Esperanto: leĝeto — a local law or regulation
• Finnish: säännös — a local law or regulation
• Finnish: asetus — a local law or regulation
• French: ordonnance — a local law or regulation
• Galician: ordenanza — a local law or regulation
• Georgian: ბრძანებულება (brʒanebuleba) — a local law or regulation
• German: Verfügung — a local law or regulation
• German: Verordnung — a local law or regulation
• Hindi: अध्यादेश (adhyādeś) — a local law or regulation
• Japanese: 条令 (jōrei) — a local law or regulation
• Kazakh: жарлық (jarlyq) — a local law or regulation
• Korean: 조례 (jorye) — a local law or regulation
• Korean: 법령 (beomnyeong) — a local law or regulation
• Latin: ordinatio — a local law or regulation
• Macedonian: у́редба (úredba) — a local law or regulation
• Macedonian: на́редба (náredba) — a local law or regulation
• Plautdietsch: Aunordnunk — a local law or regulation
• Polish: rozporządzenie — a local law or regulation
• Polish: zarządzenie — a local law or regulation
• Polish: ordynacja — a local law or regulation
• Portuguese: ordenança — a local law or regulation
• Romanian: ordonanță — a local law or regulation
• Russian: постановле́ние (postanovlénije) — a local law or regulation
• Russian: ука́з (ukáz) — a local law or regulation
• Russian: распоряже́ние (rasporjažénije) — a local law or regulation
• Russian: ордона́нс (ordonáns) — a local law or regulation
• Slovak: nariadenie — a local law or regulation
• Spanish: ordenanza — a local law or regulation
• Tagalog: kautusan — a local law or regulation
• Tagalog: ordenansa — a local law or regulation
• Ukrainian: розпоря́дження (rozporjádžennja) — a local law or regulation
• Ukrainian: ука́з (ukáz) — a local law or regulation
• Ukrainian: постано́ва (postanóva) — a local law or regulation
• Vietnamese: điều lệ — a local law or regulation
• Bulgarian: указ (ukaz) — edict, decree, order
• Bulgarian: декрет (dekret) — edict, decree, order
• Chinese Mandarin: 法令 (fǎlìng) — edict, decree, order
• Chinese Mandarin: 條令 /条令 (tiáolìng) — edict, decree, order
• Chinese Mandarin: 條例 /条例 (tiáolì) — edict, decree, order
• Finnish: määräys — edict, decree, order
• Finnish: käsky — edict, decree, order
• French: décret — edict, decree, order
• German: Anordnung — edict, decree, order
• German: Dekret — edict, decree, order
• German: Edikt — edict, decree, order
• German: Erlass — edict, decree, order
• German: Verfügung — edict, decree, order
• German: Verordnung — edict, decree, order
• Hungarian: rendelet — edict, decree, order
• Indonesian: ordonansi — edict, decree, order
• Irish: reacht — edict, decree, order
• Japanese: 条令 (jōrei) — edict, decree, order
• Japanese: 条例 (jōrei) — edict, decree, order
• Kazakh: жарлық (jarlyq) — edict, decree, order
• Korean: 조례 (jorye) — edict, decree, order
• Korean: 법령 (beomnyeong) — edict, decree, order
• Latin: ordinatio — edict, decree, order
• Macedonian: у́каз (úkaz) — edict, decree, order
• Macedonian: декре́т (dekrét) — edict, decree, order
• Malay: ordinan — edict, decree, order
• Maltese: ordinanza — edict, decree, order
• Norwegian Bokmål: forordning — edict, decree, order
• Norwegian Nynorsk: forordning — edict, decree, order
• Polish: ordynacja — edict, decree, order
• Russian: ордона́нс (ordonáns) — edict, decree, order
• Spanish: ordenanza — edict, decree, order
• Swedish: förordning — edict, decree, order
• Vietnamese: điều lệ — edict, decree, order
• Bulgarian: обряд (obrjad) — a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church
• Czech: liturgie — a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church
• Czech: ritus — a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church
• Finnish: rituaali — a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church
• Finnish: liturgia — a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church
• German: Ritus — a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church
• Macedonian: о́бред (óbred) — a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church
• Polish: ordynacja — a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church
• Russian: обря́д (obrjád) — a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church
• Russian: ордона́нс (ordonáns) — a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church