Words / B2

ORD-in-uh-ns/ˈɔːdɪnəns/

An ordinance is an official rule or local law: a city ordinance; a religious ordinance. Regulation is wider; ordnance (with no i) is military weapons and ammunition. Quote the ordinance number, not a slogan. Mix-up: ordnance / ordinary. Do not write ordinance for a tank or a shell.

Meaning

An official rule or local law (not ordnance, which is military weapons).

Examples

• “Quote the city ordinance number in the planning source, not a slogan.”
• “A religious ordinance featured in the RS paper, which is the rite-or-rule sense.”

Good to know

a city / local ordinance; ordinance no. Trap: ordnance (weapons). Close: regulation. Citizenship, planning, and RS. A local law, not artillery.

Near in meaning

regulation

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