ORDER OF THE DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does order of the day mean? 

• ORDER OF THE DAY (noun)
  The noun ORDER OF THE DAY has 1 sense:

1. the order of business for an assembly on a given day

  Familiarity information: ORDER OF THE DAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDER OF THE DAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The order of business for an assembly on a given day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("order of the day" is a kind of...):

agenda; agendum; order of business (a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "order of the day"):

order book; order paper (a printed copy of the order of the day)

 Context examples 

It would surely be much more rational if conversation instead of dancing were made the order of the day.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The Silva tribe, however, stanchly defended him, fighting more than one pitched battle for his honor, and black eyes and bloody noses became quite the order of the day and added to Maria's perplexities and troubles.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties; and it has been observed in every arrangement connected with the establishment of Lowood: plain fare, simple attire, unsophisticated accommodations, hardy and active habits; such is the order of the day in the house and its inhabitants.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Behind the tents the great war-horses, armed at all points, champed and reared, while their masters sat at the doors of their pavilions, with their helmets upon their knees, chatting as to the order of the day's doings.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)