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lower order

Noun

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lower order

(cricket) The batsmen, constituting the tail, who bat last - roughly in positions 8 to 11.

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The time period lying between command of goods of a higher order and possession of the corresponding goods of lower order can never be eliminated. Carl Menger

On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away. V. S. Pritchett

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage. Cormac McCarthy

It would not be too much to say that if all drinking of fermented liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its present amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in the lower order might be indefinitely raised. Charles Buxton

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