order paper

noun

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

He waited for Mr. Pappleworth, not knowing what to do, sitting scribbling on the yellow order-paper.

This afternoon there were no fewer than two hundred and eighty-two of them on the Order-Paper.

So I showed him my order paper, and he shrugged his shoulders and went away.

Two pencil notes, written on slips torn from the order paper, were put into his hands.

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