order of the day

1. 1.

   the order of business for an assembly on a given day

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Questions about order of the day

What does order of the day mean?

order of the day means "the order of business for an assembly on a given day".

Is order of the day a common word?

order of the day 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.