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   a motion calling for an immediate vote on the main question under discussion by a deliberative assembly

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What does previous question mean?

previous question means "a motion calling for an immediate vote on the main question under discussion by a deliberative assembly".

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previous question 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.