Dictionary

law and order en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /lɔː.ɹən(d)ˈɔːdə/ intrusive R
• /lɔː.ən(d)ˈɔːdə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /lɔ.ən(d)ˈoɹdəɹ/ (General-American)

Meanings

1. (dated, obsolete, uncountable) The principles under which the world and its components operate.
   • Neither do Law and Order agree in the reciprocation of Names only, but also in their Natures. Hence Plato oft useth them promiscuously one for the other, and joins them together as exegetic each of other. 1677, Theophilus Gale, The Court of the Gentiles, Or, A Discourse Touching the Original of Human, page 187:
   • But all evill of punishment ariseth from evill of fault and this evill of fault is from the creature itself, breaking the Law and Order that God hath set to it. 1659, William Ames, The Substance of Christian Religion, page 135:
   • For, as in all Monarchies, it is the Law and Order of God Almighty that Subjects receive from, and not give unto their Soveraigne Lawes 1653, John Allington, The Grand Conspiracy of the Members Against the Minde, page 13:
2. (uncountable) The strict enforcement of law, statutes, and social conventions.
   • The government’s default approach to labor disputes has been to treat them as a threat to law and order. After a widely reported miners’ strike in the northeastern city of Shuangyashan in 2016, for example, the Public Security Bureau arrested 30 people for what it called serious criminal charges. 2018 April 2, Harvey Thomlinson, “China’s Communist Party Is Abandoning Workers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2018, Opinion:

Forms

Relateds

policing · rule of law

Translations (24)

sv lag och ordning (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · nn lov og orden (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · ru обще́ственный поря́док (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · cy deddf a threfn (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · ka მართლწესრიგი და კანონიერება (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · ja 治安 (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · cmn 法治 (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · nb lov og orden (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · ka კანონი და წესრიგი (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · cmn 公安 (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · es orden público (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · fi laki ja järjestys (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · vi an ninh trật tự (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · ga riail agus reacht (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · sv lag och rätt (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · ja 公安 (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · de öffentliche Ordnung (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · fr ordre public (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · hu közrend (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · ba тәртип (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · cmn 法律和秩序 (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · cmn 治安 (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · ka მართლწესრიგი (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions) · fi laillinen järjestys (enforcement of law, statutes and social conventions)