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Definition of Green paper

1. Noun. A preliminary report of government proposals that is published in order to stimulate discussion.

Definition of Green paper

1. Noun. A tentative government report of a proposal without any commitment to action, being the first step in changing the law; a discussion document. ¹

2. Noun. (Canada) An official document sponsored by the Crown of propositions put before the nation for discussion. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Green paper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"... that a gentleman whose suspicions were aroused as to the green paper- hangings being the cause of his bad health, discovered arsenic in the dust which ..."

2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1863)
"So far as his experience went, he believed that the injurious effects attributed to green paper-hangings had been exaggerated. He thought that flock papers ..."

3. Experimental Science: Elementary, Practical and Experimental Physics by George Milton Hopkins (1902)
"The eye is now receiving two sensations, a sensation of red from the red light in the camera and a sensation of green from the green paper ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"hand glued to the background piece, the red on the background becomes in a short time by far more pronounced than if the green paper had remained. ..."

5. Prohibited Persons: Abuse of Undocumented Migrants, Asylum-Seekers, and by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch (Organization (1998)
"In order to remedy these deficiencies, the South African government appointed a green paper task group on international migration in late 1996 to propose a ..."

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