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noun

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

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Words nearby order paper

Order of Merit, Order of Military Merit, order of the day, Order of the Garter, Order of the Thistle, order paper, order port, orders, order someone about, ordinal, ordinal number

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How to use order paper in a sentence

He waited for Mr. Pappleworth, not knowing what to do, sitting scribbling on the yellow order-paper.
Sons and Lovers|David Herbert Lawrence
This afternoon there were no fewer than two hundred and eighty-two of them on the Order-Paper.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 26, 1919|Various
So I showed him my order paper, and he shrugged his shoulders and went away.
The Flaming Sword in Serbia and Elsewhere|Mabel Annie Boulton Stobart
Two pencil notes, written on slips torn from the order paper, were put into his hands.
Lord Randolph Churchill|Winston Spencer Churchill