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out of order

 
See:
order
part of speech: phrase
definition 1: When something is out of order, it is not working. It is broken at this time. Probably it will get fixed in the future.
The washing machines in the laundry room were out of order, so we had to wash our clothes somewhere else.
definition 2: When things are out of order, they are not in the correct or normal order.
Jade arranges the rocks in her collection by size, from the biggest to the smallest. Today when she looked at her collection, she could see they were out of order. Maybe her little sister played with them.