WHITE PAPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white paper mean? 

• WHITE PAPER (noun)
  The noun WHITE PAPER has 1 sense:

1. a government report; bound in white

  Familiarity information: WHITE PAPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE PAPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A government report; bound in white

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

white book; white paper

Hypernyms ("white paper" is a kind of...):

report; study; written report (a written document describing the findings of some individual or group)

 Context examples 

He took a piece of white paper folded up out of his waistcoat pocket.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Last night after tea, when you and mama went out of the room, they were whispering and talking together as fast as could be, and he seemed to be begging something of her, and presently he took up her scissors and cut off a long lock of her hair, for it was all tumbled down her back; and he kissed it, and folded it up in a piece of white paper; and put it into his pocket-book.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

When the chaplain and the sisters had left me alone with my husband—oh, Lucy, it is the first time I have written the words 'my husband'—left me alone with my husband, I took the book from under his pillow, and wrapped it up in white paper, and tied it with a little bit of pale blue ribbon which was round my neck, and sealed it over the knot with sealing-wax, and for my seal I used my wedding ring.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)