order of business

1. 1.

   a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)

   Synonymsagendaagendum

   Broaderlist

   Narrowerorder of the day

   Partsagenda item

Questions about order of business

What does order of business mean?

order of business means "a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)".

What is another word for order of business?

Close synonyms include agenda, agendum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is order of business a common word?

order of business 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.