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order paper

British

noun

a list indicating the order in which business is to be conducted, esp in Parliament

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Ullom said he tried to order paper shopping bags with the store logo and was told it would be four or five months.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2021

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I'm told that the electoral college is not on the order paper for the NEC."

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2021

Some wanted to bring down the government, others wanted to take control of the order paper to pass more laws, others sought valuable Brexit documents from the government.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2020

Here is the link to the Commons order paper outlining Monday’s agenda:

From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2019

Trouble broke out in Parliament, where one Irish member put on the order paper a question specifying all the charges against the new Ambassador.

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

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