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Definition of "order of business" []

  • A matter, such as a task, that must be addressed. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "order of business" in a sentence
  • "The regular order of business was suspended, and Senate messages taken up, and the Senate joint resolution adding a committee on Agriculture and Mechanics, to the joint standing committees of the Legislature, was concurred in."
  • "Their first order of business was the investigation of a revenue collector named C. W. Ford."
  • "His first order of business was to arrange with the FBI a ruse to put Ulric off guard."
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