extended order

1. 1.

   a military formation for skirmishing; as widely separated as the tactical situation permits

   Broadermilitary formation

   military

Questions about extended order

What does extended order mean?

extended order means "a military formation for skirmishing; as widely separated as the tactical situation permits".

Is extended order a common word?

extended order is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.