"lost orders" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to orders that cannot be located or found. Example: The company's profits took a hit due to a large number of lost orders that were never fulfilled.
He has lost orders to foreign competitors asking double his price but delivering in less than half the time.
The sale would fit with Electronic Data's aim to revive profit growth after it lost orders to I.B.M., and its top customer, General Motors, cut purchases.
Ahmed said on Friday that most of the £40m of lost orders would not be recovered because they had gone to competitors.
The steel company Duferco Farrell, for example, has cut about 600 jobs in Pennsylvania after it lost orders from its biggest customer because some of its goods are partly produced abroad.
On Sept. 9, he issued his famous "Lost Orders," directing Stonewall Jackson to re-cross the Potomac and circle around to attack the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry from the west, while Gen. Lafayette McLaws and Gen. John Walker were to assist by capturing Maryland and Loudon Heights overlooking Harpers Ferry.
But Krieg says the company cannot count on recovering those lost orders when times improve.
What if Robert E. Lee's lost Order 191 had not been found by Unionists?
Standardising furnishings across properties would speed up the process so there is no time lost ordering fixtures and fittings.
They feel he's not modern or post-modern but a straightforward storyteller bemoaning a lost order".
The lost order was arguably a statistically predictable result of rushed administration connected with the speedy movements of Lee's army.
Similarly, in postwar correspondence with McClellan, Hill learned the lost order was found inside an envelope – presumably the delivery one, implying that it had never been opened and therefore never delivered.
