Sequence and order

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Lcchang  #254830  Fri, 11 Aug 06 05:15 PM

Calls will be answered in the order in which they were received.

Can I change the word order to sequence or sequencing? Please advise.

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nona the brit  #254840  Fri, 11 Aug 06 05:36 PM
You could, but order is much better. Sequence suggests that the calls arrived in a deliberate pattern.
  
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Marius Hancu  #255029  Sat, 12 Aug 06 03:23 AM
To me order it's better for a single reason: it's more general and thus understood by more people.

Sequence is a bit "intellectual" in this context.
But other than that, it's perfectly OK here, IMO. See:

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sequence

c : the order in which events are connected or related in time :
simple succession; especially : the connection of antecedent and
consequent in a temporal series apart from any causal necessity <the
reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable
sequences>

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Anonymous  #586412  Tue, 11 Nov 08 10:29 AM
WHAT IS THE SEQENCE OF ADVERB?
  
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