rush order
noun[C]
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On many occasions the men worked day and night to fill rush orders from the front for equipment.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Strikes are to be called when the employers can least afford a cessation of workduring the busy season and when there are rush orders to be filled.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For example, it was noted that the system would be required respond quickly to changes such as machine failures and rush orders that would invalidate the current schedule.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The factory needed more flexibility, and to be able to switch workers about to meet rush orders.
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But it is sometimes inevitable, in existing circumstances, that rush orders should be placed, or that a continuous flow of orders should be interrupted.
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It is, at the same time, from the point of view of the works, uneconomic when these rush orders are put in.
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They were rush orders, and madame locked the front door and put the whole force to work.
FromProject Gutenberg
Even then, however, we do not make them pay because they put it on the bill, and rush orders always cost more money.
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Big financial houses, which stood to lose millions on a falling market, rallied and by rush orders to buy, attempted to stem the tide, but all to no purpose.
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