green paper

1. 1.

   a preliminary report of government proposals that is published in order to stimulate discussion

   Broaderreport

   United Kingdom

Questions about green paper

What does green paper mean?

green paper means "a preliminary report of government proposals that is published in order to stimulate discussion".

Is green paper a common word?

green paper 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.