in order to
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.48 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
conj
before an infinitive: As a means of achieving the specified end; to.
Example Sentences
- "In order to be fit, you've gotta train hard every day."
- "Here we were nearly 8 min. early, and was now a matter of spinning out time, as indeed we did—losing 3 min. from Penrith to Carlisle!—in order not to run into Carlisle more than 5 min. early."
- "She stood in order to see over the crowd. / She stood to see over the crowd."
- "Simple common sense would dictate that the two-year schools, in order to compensate for the relative educational deprivation of their students, would have to spend more money on their college education."
- "In order to do that, I turn briefly to the ways in which the terms "marked" and "unmarked" are employed in other domains, to determine whether those notions can be extended naturally into the area of discourse."
- "State law requires a name change applicant to publish notice of the potential name change, in order to alert the public in case anyone wants to contest the action."