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Definition of Order of business
1. Noun. A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
Generic synonyms: List, Listing
Terms within: Agenda Item
Specialized synonyms: Order Of The Day
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Of Business
Literary usage of Order of business
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives by Clarence A. Cannon, United States Congress. House, Thomas Jefferson (1919)
"order of business. 1. The daily order of business shall be as follows: §856. ...
Originally the House had no rule prescribing an order of business, ..."
2. Robert's Rules of Order Revised for Deliberative Assemblies by Henry Martyn Robert (1915)
"Order of Business. It is customary for every society having a permanent existence
to adopt an order of business for its meetings. ..."
3. Lex Parliamentaria Americana: Elements of the Law and Practice of by Luther Stearns Cushing (1874)
"An established order of business is so necessary in every assembly, to the orderly
... The order of business established by each assembly will, undoubtedly, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"order of business Thursday, November 10. Morning session : Phosphoric acid ;
Nitrogen; Potash; Soils; Inorganic plant constituents. ..."
5. Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, the Rules of the House of Representatives by United States Congress. House, Thomas Jefferson, United States (1904)
"The rule prescribing the regular order of business. (344) Rule XXIV, section 1.
An instance wherein the House came to the end of "its order of business. ..."
6. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1861)
"The order of business of reports of select committees having been announced— Mr.
Truman moved to lay that order of business on the table. ..."
7. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"The regular order of business, first definitely established in 1811, ...
The regular order of business in time ceased to bind the House to a daily routine, ..."
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