first reading

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   the first presentation of a bill in a legislature

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Questions about first reading

What does first reading mean?

first reading means "the first presentation of a bill in a legislature".

Is first reading a common word?

first reading 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.