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POINT OF ORDER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does point of order mean?
• POINT OF ORDER (noun)
The noun POINT OF ORDER has 1 sense:
1. a question as to whether the current proceedings are allowed by parliamentary procedure
Familiarity information: POINT OF ORDER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A question as to whether the current proceedings are allowed by parliamentary procedure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("point of order" is a kind of...):
order; parliamentary law; parliamentary procedure; rules of order (a body of rules followed by an assembly)
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