orderly

Adjective modifier

• medical: Another group was based in the East End of London, working as medical orderlies or male nurses.
• few: There were a few British orderlies who later joined us.

Modifies a noun

• fashion: They were set out in a very orderly fashion, each the same distance apart.
• handover: They will work closely to ensure an orderly handover.
• queue: Please form an orderly queue... ... ... ... .
• shutdown: This provides a more orderly shutdown than that offered by previous versions.
• manner: Students in College should behave in an orderly manner at all times.
• transition: Our window of opportunity for planning an orderly world transition opened in the 1960s.

Used with adjective complement

• look: I rang round and begged for help from every friend I had, and slowly things began to look more orderly again.
• become: Finally, don't think that English is settling down and becoming more orderly.
• behave: The Synod thereafter unanimously resolved to rebuke him, and to admonish him to behave orderly for the future.

Noun used with modifier

• hospital: The hospital orderlies assumed that the man sitting in the chair was Ron.
• nursing: It was a small unit of sisters and doctors and nursing orderlies.

Modifying Another Word

• very: They were set out in a very orderly fashion, each the same distance apart.
• so: It was amusing to me to see so many little children together, and so orderly and happy.
• reasonably: The manager is tearing open the packaging as a reasonably orderly queue forms.
• quite: It took us less than half an hour and was quite orderly and the lines moved quickly.
• perfectly: The strikers gathered in thousands, and behaved, according to all the accounts, in a perfectly orderly manner.
• not: Perhaps the universe is not orderly and rational after all, and there will be many phenomena that we will never understand properly.

Preposition: in

• hospital: I have taught in schools and colleges, been a ward orderly in a hospital, worked on a farm, delivered post.