(chiefly US) An activity or task assigned or undertaken for the sake of activity or busy-ness, rather than because of a particular need.

(figuratively) To regret or retract what one has said.

(Britain) A form of address of a mayor and other dignitaries / (Canada, archaic) A form of address of a mayor.

(idiomatic) Being planned or worked upon. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: In a mechanism or machine.

The Americas and Oceania.

(idiomatic, chiefly US) Work or activity performed with the intention or result of occupying time, and not necessarily to accomplish something productive; routine work of low priority undertaken for the sake of avoiding idleness.

(linguistics) A word or morpheme used in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns, used especially in Asian languages.

(computing) Write once read many (or read multiple), with regards to a disc medium. See write once.

Alternative letter-case form of New World Order

A vision for the world in which greater peace and stability is achieved through a new political order. / According to conspiracy theories, the planned rule of the world by a secret global elite.