Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
ORDINATION
ordination, ordinance
(noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; “the rabbi’s family was present for his ordination”
ordering, order, ordination
(noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; “we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation”
ordination
(noun) the status of being ordained to a sacred office
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ordination (countable and uncountable, plural ordinations)
The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
(Christianity) The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
Source: Wiktionary
Or`di*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. ordinatio: cf. F. ordination.]
1. The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc. The holy and wise ordination of God. Jer. Taylor. Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively. Norris.
2. (Eccl.)
Definition: The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.
3. Disposition; arrangement; order. [R.] Angle of ordination (Geom.), the angle between the axes of coördinates.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EXECUTION
(noun) (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable
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