law and order
/lɔ.ən(d)ˈoɹdəɹ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.17 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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"
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /lɔ.ən(d)ˈoɹdəɹ/
- British English: /lɔː.ən(d)ˈɔːdə/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law.
Inflected Forms
law-and-order (alternative)