marching orders

1. 1.

   (informal) a notice of dismissal or discharge

   Synonymswalking papers

   Broaderdismissal
2. 2.

   an order from a superior officer for troops to depart

   Broaderorder

Questions about marching orders

What does marching orders mean?

marching orders means "(informal) a notice of dismissal or discharge". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for marching orders?

Close synonyms include walking papers. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is marching orders a common word?

marching orders 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.