lower orders
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The French aerospace company booked sharply lower orders in the first half of the year as the group didn’t log a single booking for its Rafale fighter jet, though its Falcon business aircraft remained popular.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Adès takes more time fancifully tormenting the high and mighty than he does the lower orders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2017
Otherwise, the lower orders would defect to the other side.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2016
While services and retail trade morale improved in January, however, construction sector sentiment fell sharply by 3.7 in part because of lower orders.
From Reuters ● Jan. 30, 2014
This occasions a greater freedom and refinement of manners among the lower orders than we meet with in our own country.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
