point of order

1. 1.

   a question as to whether the current proceedings are allowed by parliamentary procedure

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Questions about point of order

What does point of order mean?

point of order means "a question as to whether the current proceedings are allowed by parliamentary procedure".

Is point of order a common word?

point of 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.