Answer and Orders

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Answer noun - Something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question.

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Orders is an antonym for answer.

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Answer is an antonym for orders in topics: request, class, organization, arrangement, command.

Shows the struggle that a single woman has to deal with in the post-WWII business world, seen as fit only to take lunch orders and answer the phones.

Source: Deliberate Values Dissonance
For instance, "because I said so" may not be considered an answer by a junior officer, yet the senior officer may be trying to reinforce the importance of following orders.

Source: Non-Answer
It's not until Avi tries to give Tony a few orders and gets no answer that he looks around, and sees the body.

Source: Film / Snatch.

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