call to order

1. 1.

   open formally

   “the chairman called the meeting to order by pounding his gavel”

   Broaderopen

Questions about call to order

What does call to order mean?

call to order means "open formally".

Is call to order a common word?

call to order is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.